Janet Flanner
(1892-1978), journalist
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 13, 1892, Janet Flanner was the child of Quakers. She attended the University of Chicago in 1912-14 and then returned to Indianapolis and took a job with the Indianapolis Star, becoming the paper's first movie critic in 1916. After a brief marriage and a sojourn in
New York City, she traveled through Europe, eventually settling in Paris in 1922. She lived there until 1975 (except for the war years 1939-44). A friend of Harold Ross, she was hired by him in 1925 to write a periodic "Letter from Paris" for his new magazine, The New Yorker. Signed by "Genêt," the articles contained observations on politics, art, theater, French culture, and various personalities.
The letters were characterized from the first by remarkable sensibility, wit, and clarity. Flanner's reportage was sophisticated, insightful, and cosmopolitan and proved a valuable asset to The New Yorker. In the 1930s Flanner occasionally contributed a "Letter from London." She also wrote several penetrating contributions to the New Yorker's "Profile" series, notably those on Adolf Hitler, Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, Picasso, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Colette, Igor Stravinsky, Josephine Baker, Maurice Ravel, Edith Piaf, and Elsa Maxwell, among many others. Those and other pieces constitute An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude Between Two Wars (1940).
Flanner a habité à New York City pendant les années de guerre suivantes, écriture immobile pour le nouveau Yorker. Elle est allée de nouveau à Paris en 1944 et l'a continuée des "lettres" jusque finalement au renvoi à Manhattan en 1975.
Les la plupart d'elle des essais ont été rassemblées en Men et Monuments (1957), le journal de Paris, 1944-1965 (1965), le journal de Paris, 1965-1971 (1971), Paris était hier, 1925-1939 (1972), Londres était hier, 1934-1939 (1975), et monde de Janet Flanner: Écritures Arriérées 1932-1975 (1979). En plus de ses collections d'essais, Flanner a écrit un roman, City cubique (1926; 1974) réimprimé, et Chéri de Colette traduit (1920) et mA de Georgette Leblanc luttent l'avec Maeterlinck (les ETATS-UNIS intitulent des souvenirs: Ma Vie Avec Maeterlinck, 1932). Une collection d'elle des lettres à Natalia Murray, autorisée Darlinghissima , a été éditée en 1985. Janet Flanner est mort à New York, New York, novembre 7, 1978.
Bibliographie. Brenda Wineapple, Genêt: Une biographie de Janet Flanner (1989).
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