Janet Flanner

PROFILE of Margaret Anderson (1886-1973), founder of "The Little Review" in Chicago in March 1914. Her most remarkable labor was the serialization, over 3 …

Janet Flanner remembers her years with Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, and other literary greats.

Obituary of Edith Piaf who died at seven o'clock in the morning in Paris, and a few hours later on the same recent Friday her friend Jean Cocteau, in …

Janet Flanner’s 1957 Profile of the painter and sculptor.

PROFILE of Georges Braque, the French painter. In 1907, Braque was hunter up by Kahnweiler, a brilliant, intellectual German from a well-do-do family of …

Part 2 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of the painter discusses his rise to popularity following the First World War, his series of female figures, and his work on the Chapelle du Rosaire.

Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Janet Flanner’s 1950 Letter from Rome telling of the journalistic excitement stirred up by the birth of Ingrid Bergman’s baby.

Janet Flanner on how the Fuhrer, aided by a group of art-pillaging Nazis, became the biggest, fastest collector of art in modern times.

Three-part article on Charles E. Bedaux, industrialist-efficiency expert, inventor of "measurement of human energy" speedup system. He would have been the …

Second Part of Profile of Bedaux, inventor of the Bedaux industrial speedup system. He would have been the only American citizen ever to be charged with …

PROFILE of Charles E. Bedaux, discoverer of the "measurement of human energy." Definition of the system; names of important firms using it in this country,…

Writing in 1945, Janet Flanner speaks with a concentration-camp survivor.

Profile of Marshall Petain- the battle of Verdun. Legend correctly haloed Petain as the titular savior of Verdun and incorrectly credited him with, saying …

PROFILE of Marshal Petain. The most famous Marshal, Achille Bazaine, was so scandalized on hearing towards the end of the war in 1870, that, upon the fall …

REPORTER AT LARGE about escape from France by a Mrs. Jeffries.

Janet Flanner’s classic 1943 Profile of the candid-as-glass Hollywood star Bette Davis.

REPORTER AT LARGE. Cannes before the war & now; Monte Carlo the Riviera. In Auribeau, a hamlet perched on the slopes behind Cannes with 185 inhabitants, …

REPORTER AT LARGE about conditions in Germany & in the German occupied countries. There was more European interest in the Riom trial than in any other of …

PROFILE of Mrs. Alice Throckmorton McLean, organizer and President of A.W.V.S. Ticklish questions as to what is or isn't correct for a woman in uniform…

REPORTER AT LARGE about life in France; what they eat, read, amusements in Paris. For many who haven't money, the short-wave radio is the only …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the situation in France. The Nazis have moved in as French business partners. Local fortunes have also been taken over by Germany, …

PROFILE of Wendel Willkie. Willkie owns five farms, & they are managed by Miss Mary Sleeth, the former Rushville librarian to whom Mrs. Willkie was …

PROFILE of Main Bocher, Paris dressmaker & designer. Main Bocher was born on the unfashionable West Side of Chicago forty-nine years ago. His original aim …

Janet Flanner’s 1939 Profile of Picasso, about the beginnings of Cubism, ugliness as style, and how a young man from Málaga, Spain became one of the costliest painters on earth.

Janet Flanner on Marthe Hanau, the “spicy Paris personality” whose financial paper Gazette du Franc swindled millions of xenophobic investors in postwar France.

PROFILE of William Christian Bullitt, American Ambassador to France. He was born in Philadelphia of an old aristocratic family. Tells about his childhood &…

Janet Flanner’s 1938 piece on Eugen Weidmann, the kidnapper and murderer who later became the last person to be publicly executed in France.

PROFILE of Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl. In 1904, she left the stage and opened a decorating shop. The future Lady Mendl knew the wealthy, knew the women, …

His brain is instinctive, not logical, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. His name, in Germany, has been substituted for that of God.

Young Hitler was rejected from art school and disliked in the army, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. A fateful pamphlet circulated just after the First World War inspired him in another direction.

Fanatic, celibate, vegetarian. Janet Flanner’s 1936 Profile of the man who brought the Nazis to power.

Janet Flanner, James Thurber, and Harold Ross recount an average day with the author Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas, from morning routines to country drives.

Profile of Elsa Maxwell.

Profile of Elsa Schiaparelli, whose entry into dressmaking was an accident. It came when after a five year trial of American life, she was still testing …

Janet Flanner’s 1931 Profile of Coco Chanel. “The key to her peculiar genius and its sartorial consequences may lie in the fact that Chanel, most Parisian and expensive couturier of her epoch, was born poor and in the country.”

PROFILE of Francois Coty, the famous perfume manufacturer who shuns publicity. It is known that his real name is Cpoturno, and Coty is a nom de plume he …

In this classic Profile of Edith Wharton, Janet Flanner writes about the novelist’s friendships, her ethics, her travels, and her flowers.

PROFILE of French fashion designer Paul Poiret. Born and bred in the heart of bourgeois Paris, traditionally educated in one of the capital’s old …

Janet Flanner writes about the American dancer Isadora Duncan’s infamous life and reputation in the arts, and her return to the stage, in France.