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Janet Flanner (1892–1978)

Autore di Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939

19+ opere 979 membri 13 recensioni 6 preferito

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Flanner, Janet
Altri nomi
Genet (pseudonym)
Data di nascita
1892-03-13
Data di morte
1978-11-07
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Luogo di morte
New York, New York, USA
Luogo di residenza
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Pennsylvania, USA
Istruzione
University of Chicago
Tudor Hall School for Girls
Attività lavorative
journalist
writer
Relazioni
Solano, Solita (partner)
Organizzazioni
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1959)
The New Yorker
Breve biografia
Janet Flanner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. After a period spent traveling abroad with her family and studies at Tudor Hall School for Girls (now Park Tudor School), she enrolled in the University of Chicago in 1912, leaving the university in 1914. In 1916, she returned to her native city to become the first drama and art critic for the Indianapolis Star. In 1922, she settled in Paris with her companion Solita Solano, and lived there, writing as the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker (except for a gap during World War II) until almost the end of her life. She used the pen name Genêt. She became a prominent member of the American expatriate community that included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, e.e. cummings, Hart Crane, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein — the world of the Lost Generation. Flanner played a key role in introducing the American public to new artists in Paris, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, André Gide, Jean Cocteau, and the Ballets Russes, as well as places such as Les Deux Magots café and events such as the Stavisky Affair.
Her writing came to epitomize the "New Yorker style." An example: "The late Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions: she never set foot in the Opéra, and she was murdered." Flanner also was the author of one novel, The Cubical City (1926).

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This is different. Some of the entries are very entertaining.. others not so much. Still an interesting look at the time and the mindset of the author. I picked this up at a library sale, definitely worth the dime!
 
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Kiri | 6 altre recensioni | Dec 24, 2023 |
Original "Paris was yesterday" written for The New Yorker - great to read about an American in Europe during the war
 
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betty_s | Sep 17, 2023 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
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Recensioni
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ISBN
28
Lingue
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