Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 - November 7, 1978) was a child of Quakers, an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from its inception in 1925 until she retired in 1975. She also published a single novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City.

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March 13 - 1892 - November 7 - 1978 - American - Writer - Journalist - Paris - The New Yorker - 1925 - 1975 - Novel - New York City

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During her many years at The New Yorker, Janet Flanner wrote commentary on European politics and culture. Signed Genêt, the articles contained observations on politics, art, theater, French culture, and various personalities.

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Flanner was born in Indianapolis. After a period spent traveling abroad with her family, she enrolled in the University of Chicago in 1912, graduating in 1914. Two years later, she returned to her native city to take up a post as the first cinema critic on the local paper, the Indianapolis Star. After periods in Pennsylvania and New York, in her mid twenties, Flanner left the United States for Paris, quickly becoming part of the group of American writers and artists who lived in the city between the world wars. In October 1925 Flanner published her first "Letter from Paris" in the then brand-new magazine, The New Yorker, launching a professional association destined to last for five decades.

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Indianapolis - University of Chicago - 1912 - 1914 - Pennsylvania - New York

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She was a frequent visitor to Los Angeles because her mother, Mary, lived at 428 E. Marigold St. in Altadena with her sister, poet Hildegarde Flanner, and brother-in-law, Frederick Monhof.

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Los Angeles - Altadena - Hildegarde Flanner - Frederick Monhof

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Flanner lived in New York City during war years of World War II, still writing for The New Yorker. She went back to Paris in 1944 and continued her "Letters" until finally returning to Manhattan in 1975.

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Flanner's work during World War II included not only her famous "Letter from Paris" (disrupted for a period) and seminal pieces on Hitler's rise (1936) and the Nuremberg trials (1945), but a series of little-known weekly radio broadcasts for the NBC Blue Network during the months following the liberation of Paris in late 1944.

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