Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
Brenda Wineapple
369 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0803297408
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Language: English
Publish: 723196800000
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker , taking the pseudonym Genêt. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.