Janet Flanner

Journalist

Birthday March 13, 1892

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Birthplace Indiana

DEATH DATE Nov 7, 1978 (86)

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About

American writer and journalist who was the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until 1975.

Before Fame

She went to the University of Chicago for two years, but left to work as a film critic.

Trivia

She wrote under the pen name "Genêt" and published one novel, The Cubical City.

Family Life

She married William "Lane" Rehm in 1918, and they mutually divorced in 1926.

Associated With

She was a guest on the Dick Cavett show during the infamous argument between Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.