Janet Flanner

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Janet Flanner


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Janet Flanner was born and educated in Indianapolis, Indiana. After a year abroad, she entered the University of Chicago in 1914, yearning for culture and experience. Returning to Indianapolis after little more than a year, she took a position as an art and drama columnist for the Indianapolis Star.{$S[A]Genet;Flanner, Janet}

By early 1918, tired of life in conventional Indianapolis, she married William Lane Rehm and moved with him to New York’s Greenwich Village. Her early years gave her a lifelong distaste for conservative morality and provided a...

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