Flanner, Janet

Flanner, Janet( 1892–1978),
Indianapolis-born foreign correspondent who, from its founding in 1925, contributed an occasional Letter from Paris to The New Yorker. Other writings include The Cubical City (1926), a novel; An American in Paris (1940), New Yorker “profiles”; and Men and Monuments (1957), about modern French artists, Malraux, and Goering's art collecting. Her Paris Journal (vol. I, 1965) won a National Book Award; volume II (1971) continued her account to date of publication. She used the pseudonym Genêt.