num_pages: 369
description: 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.
language: English
title: Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
titlecomplete: Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
genres: France, Biography, Queer, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 43
publisher: University of Nebraska Press