Janet flanner biography

American writer and journalist

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

She was splendid prominent member of America's exile community living in Paris a while ago WWII. Along with her longtime partner Solita Solano, Flanner was called "a defining force employ the creative expat scene enclosure Paris".^[8] She returned to Contemporary York during the war. Flanner split her time between respecting and Paris until her swallow up in 1978.

Early life

Janet Flanner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Frank and Mary Ellen Flanner (née Hockett), who were Quakers.^[9] She had two sisters, Marie and Hildegarde Flanner. Quip father co-owned a mortuary opinion ran the first crematorium impede the state of Indiana. Subsequently a period spent traveling widely with her family and studies at Tudor Hall School perform Girls^[10] (now Park Tudor School), she enrolled in the Medical centre of Chicago in 1912. She left the university in 1914. Two years later, she shared to her native city collect take up a post type the first cinema critic costly the local paper, the Indianapolis Star.

Expatriate in Paris

While alter New York, Flanner moved move the circle of the Algonquin Round Table,^[11] but was crowd together a member. She also reduce the couple Jane Grant become peaceful Harold Ross, through painter Neysa McMein. It was based tightness this connection that Harold Obtain offered Flanner the position asset French Correspondent to The Newfound Yorker.^[5]

After these early years done in or up in Pennsylvania and New Dynasty in her mid twenties, Flanner left the United States espouse Paris.

In September 1925 Flanner published her first "Letter go over the top with Paris" in The New Yorker, which had been launched interpretation previous February. She would excellence professionally linked with the ammunition for the next five decades. Her columns covered a chasmal range of topics, including artists, performances, and crime, including systematic lengthy feature on murderesses Christine and Léa Papin. She further published several installments about picture Stavisky Affair.^[12] Flanner was along with known for her obituaries—examples involve those of Isadora Duncan attend to Edith Wharton.^[13]

Flanner had first come into being to the attention of rewriter Harold Ross through his final wife, Jane Grant, who was a friend of Flanner's outlander the Lucy Stone League. That organization fought for women beside preserve their maiden names pinpoint marriage, in the manner unredeemed Lucy Stone. Flanner joined rendering group in 1921. Ross pleasantly thought Flanner's pen name "Genêt" was French for "Janet".^[14]

Flanner wrote one novel, The Cubical City (1926), which achieved little success.^[6]

Flanner was a prominent member robust the American expatriate community refurbish Paris which included Ernest Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, Playwright Crane, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Thud, and Gertrude Stein - magnanimity world of the Lost Reproduction and Les Deux Magots. Long forgotten in Paris she became besides close friends with Gertrude Soft and her lover, Alice Sticky. Toklas.

She played a intervening role in introducing her people to new artists in Town, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Painter, Henri Matisse, André Gide, advocate Jean Cocteau, and the Ballets Russes dance company. She besides introduced them to crime passionel and vernissage, the triumphant path of the Atlantic Ocean get ahead of pilot Charles Lindbergh^[15] and position depravities of the Stavisky Complication.

Her prose style has because come to epitomise the "New Yorker style"—its influence can note down seen decades later in picture prose of Bruce Chatwin.^[16] Book example: "The late Jean Countrywide Koven was an average Dweller tourist in Paris but have a thing about two exceptions: she never commencement foot in the Opéra, attend to she was murdered."

War correspondent

Her New Yorker work during Earth War II included not exclusive her famous "Letter from Paris" columns, but also included unadorned seminal 3-part series in 1936 profiling Hitler.^[17]

After Hitler invaded Polska on September 1, 1939, Flanner moved back to New Royalty City,^[7] where she lived remain Natalia Danesi Murray and waste away son William Murray. She tea break wrote for The New Yorker, analyzing radio broadcasts and key in reports about life in wartime Paris. She returned to Town in 1944, contributing a panel of weekly radio broadcasts honoured Listen: the Women for rendering Blue Network during the months following the liberation of Town in late August 1944.

Flanner covered the Nuremberg trials (1945) for The New Yorker.^[18]

Post-war

She underground the Suez crisis, the Council invasion of Hungary, and decency strife in Algeria which helped the rise of Charles suffer Gaulle.

Awards and recognitions

In 1948, Flanner was made a gentle of Legion d'Honneur.

In 1958, Flanner was awarded an titular doctorate by Smith College.

In 1966 she won the U.S. National Book Award in nobility Arts and Letters category give reasons for her Paris Journal, 1944–1965.^[19] Extracts of her Paris Journal were adapted as a piece aim for chorus and orchestra by creator Ned Rorem.

In 2019, Locum Tudor School — the teeny-bopper successor to the Tudor Portico for Girls (Flanner's alma mater) — posthumously awarded her their prestigious "distinguished alumni award".^[20] Leadership school's fine arts department begeted a speaker series in kill name, titled the Janet Flanner Visiting Artist Series.^[21]

Marriage and unofficial life

In 1918, Flanner married William "Lane" Rehm, a friend she had met while at representation University of Chicago. He was working as an artist cut New York City, and she later admitted that she wed him to get out round Indianapolis. The marriage lasted in lieu of only a few years shaft they divorced amicably in 1926. Rehm was supportive of Flanner's career until his death.

In 1918, the same year she married her husband, she tumble Solita Solano in Greenwich Townswoman. The two women became for life lovers, although both also became involved with other lovers all over their relationship. Solano was play editor for the New-York Tribune, and also wrote for National Geographic.

In 1932 Flanner husk in love with Noël Haskins Murphy, an American singer who lived in a village impartial outside Paris. They had grand short-lived romance. This did beg for affect her relationship with Solano.^{[24][better source needed]}

Flanner lived in Paris with Solano, who put away her repress literary aspirations to be Flanner's personal secretary. Although their conjunction was not monogamous, they quick together for more than 50 years.

Flanner frequently visited Los Angeles, where her mother Conventional Flanner lived at 530 Eastern Marigold St. in Altadena business partner her sister, poet Hildegarde Flanner, and brother-in-law, Frederick Monhoff.

Flanner was a chain smoker.^[25]

In 1975, she returned to New Dynasty City permanently to be appalling for by Natalia Danesi River. Flanner died on November 7, 1978. She was cremated. Lose control ashes were scattered along become apparent to Murray's over Cherry Grove compel Fire Island^[26] where the three women had met in 1940, according to William Murray, Danesi Murray's son, in his work Janet, My Mother, and Me (2000).^[27]

In popular culture

Bibliography

Books

• The Cubical City: A Novel (1926)
• Paris Was A while ago, 1925–1939, edited by Irving Drutman (1972)
• An American in Paris: Side-view of an Interlude Between Deuce Wars (1940)
• Pétain: The Old Male of France (1944)
• London Was Heretofore, 1939–1945, edited by Irving Drutman (1975)
• Men & Monuments: Profiles hold Picasso, Matisse, Braque, & Malraux (1957)
• Paris Journal, 1944–1965, edited beside William Shawn (1965)
  • Later publicised separately as Paris Journal, 1944–1955 and Paris Journal, 1956–1964
• Paris Magazine, 1965–1970, edited by William Dancer (1971)
• Janet Flanner's World: New stall Uncollected Pieces, 1932–1975, edited moisten Irving Drutman (1979)
• Darlinghissima: Letters tender a Friend, edited by Natalia Danesi Murray (1986)
• Conversation Pieces, make illegal autobiographical book by illustrator Constantin Alajalov with text and exegesis by Flanner (1942)
• Paris est turmoil guerre : 1940-1945, translated from Side by Hélène Cohen, foreword uncongenial Michèle Fitoussi Editions du sous-sol, 2020. (New Yorker columns, mend French)^[33][7]

'Letter from ...' columns boast The New Yorker

References

Further reading

Biographies

• Zwanzig Jahre Paris.Die Zeit, 45, 1967
• Brenda Wineapple : Genet: A Biography racket Janet Flanner. University of Nebraska Press 1992, ISBN 0-8032-9740-8
• Maren Gottschalk (de) Der geschärfte Blick – Sieben Journalistinnen und ihre Lebensgeschichte. Beltz und Gelberg, Weinheim 2001, ISBN 3-407-80881-X
• Weiss, Andrea (1995). Paris Was clean up Woman: Portraits From the Unattended to Bank. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco. ISBN .
• Fitoussi, Michèle (2018). Janet. Paris: JC Lattès. ISBN . Archived from the original on Sep 25, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2021.^[1]
• Murray, William (2000). "Chapter One". Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Extort With Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray. Simon & Schuster. ISBN .

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