Born: 13-Mar-1892
Birthplace: Indianapolis, IN
Died: 7-Nov-1978
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered at sea)

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Lesbian
Occupation: Journalist, Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The New Yorker

Father: Francis Flanner
Mother: Mary-Ellen Hockett

    High School: Tudor Hall, Indianapolis, IN
    University: University of Chicago (attended 1912-14)

    The New Yorker Paris Correspondent (1925-75)
    The Indianapolis Star Film Critic (1916)
    National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1966 for Paris Journal, 1944-1965
    Risk Factors: Sciatica

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Paris Was a Woman (1995) · Herself

Is the subject of books:
Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner, 1989, BY: Brenda Wineapple

Author of books:
The Cubical City (1926, novel)
An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude Between Two Wars (1940)
Men and Monument (1957, essays)
Paris Journal, 1944–1965 (1965, essays)
Paris Journal, 1965-1971 (1971, essays)
Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (1972, essays)
London Was Yesterday, 1934–1939 (1975, essays)
Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932–1975 (1979, essays)
Darlinghissima (1985, letters, to Natalia Murray)

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