Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner
Flanner at Les Deux Magots, during the liberation of Paris, 1944, with Ernest Hemingway[1][2][3]
Born(1892-03-13)March 13, 1892
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
DiedNovember 7, 1978(1978-11-07) (aged 86)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, war correspondent
Known forForeign correspondent in Paris, 1925–1975
Spouse
William Rehm
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(m. 1918; div. 1926)​
Partner(s)Natalia Danesi Murray
Solita Solano
Noël Haskins Murphy

Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist[4] who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975.[5] She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".[6][7] She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City.

She was a prominent member of America's expatriate community living in Paris before WWII. Along with her longtime partner Solita Solano, Flanner was called "a defining force in the creative expat scene in Paris".[8] She returned to New York during the war. Flanner split her time between there and Paris until her death in 1978.

  1. ^ "Janet Flanner and Ernest Hemingway, both in uniform, seated reading papers at a table in the Deux Magots cafe in Paris, France". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  2. ^ Chapuis, Audrey. "Janet Flanner". The American Library in Paris. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  3. ^ Weber, Ronald (2019). Dateline-'Liberated Paris': the Hotel Scribe and the invasion of the press. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1850-4.
  4. ^ "Janet Flanner". Susanna Lea Associates. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  5. ^ Yagoda, Ben About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made, Scribner (New York): 2000, p. 76
  6. ^ Dirda, Michael (November 18, 1979). "Foreign Correspondence: Janet Flanner in Europe". Washington Post. Retrieved December 10, 2021. Janet Flanner once wrote that she was dubbed Genet -- the name under which she composed her "Letter from Paris" -- because New Yorker editor Harold Ross thought it "seemed like a Frenchification of Janet."
  7. ^ Joubert, Sophie (May 28, 2020). "Occupied Paris by Janet Flanner". France-Amérique. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  8. ^ Aron, Nina Renata (May 10, 2018). "These trendsetting lesbian lovers fled 1920s America for Paris and lived their best life". Medium. Retrieved July 29, 2021.