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Genêt – the pen name of the famous New Yorker’s Letter from Paris. It’s Janet Flanner’s best work, but a fifty year work history is not what she wanted to be remembered for. She probably didn’t want to be remembered for her complicated love life either.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner by Brenda Wineapple
Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank by Andrea Weiss
Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up with Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray by William Murray
Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940 by Shari Benstock