Janet Flanner and Solita Solano papers
Contributors: Solano, Solita, 1888-1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3000
Subjects: Intellectual life; New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925); Americans; Poetry
Description: Correspondence, subject files, literary manuscripts, drafts of articles, books, poems, and other writings, clippings and tear-sheets, printed material, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating primarily to Flanner's career as a writer, especially for The New Yorker, and to Solano's interests and writings.  Much of the material relates to the literary and intellectual life of Paris and New York during the first half of the 20th century and includes writings, correspondence, subject matter, and photographs of and relating to many prominent individuals from this period.

Persons represented include Berenice Abbott, Margaret Anderson, Aragon, Geraldine Balayé, Djuna Barnes, Sybille Bedford, Kay Boyle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothy Caruso, Elizabeth Jenks Clark, Colette, Nancy Cunard, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Daphne Vivian Fielding, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Ernest Hemingway, Kathryn Cavarly Hulme, Georgette Leblanc, André Malraux, Pierre de Massot, George Moore, Marianne Moore, Raymond Mortimer, Noel Haskins Murphy, Olga Petrova, Ezra Pound, Man Ray, Harold Wallace Ross, Carl Sandburg, William Shawn, Dame Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, Monica Stirling, Alice B. Toklas, Carl Van Vechten, E. B. White, Thornton Wilder, William Carlos Williams, and Alexander Woollcott.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available, no. 17,481.

Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1979, 1982 & 1999 (duplicate sets).

Gift, Janet Flanner and Solita Solano, 1967-1977.

transferred to appropriate divisions of the Library where they are identified as part of these papers.

Janet Flanner (1892-1978), who used the pseudonym Genêt, and her companion, Solita Solano (1888-1975), were American journalists, writers, and literary editors, who settled in Paris, France, in 1922.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.