Gen?t: A Biography of Janet FlannerThe 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 yearsøbefore she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Gen?t. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance. |
Contents
Young Girl 18921909 I | 1 |
This Hard Gemlike Flame 19101918 | 21 |
She Whom the Gods Had Made 19181921 | 40 |
But I Must Dare All 19211924 | 55 |
Paris France 19241925 | 76 |
A Gentleman of the Press in Skirts | 94 |
Noeline 19281933 | 114 |
Peace in Our Time 19351939 | 142 |
A Charnel House 19441947 | 183 |
Inventions Are Hastier 19481951 | 205 |
The Voices of Silence 19521955 | 222 |
A Steady Conflagration of Matches | 240 |
How Friends Grow Old 19601965 | 260 |
Paris Was Yesterday 19661978 | 276 |
Notes | 301 |
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