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The Writer in America: Janet Flanner (1975)

1975 · Short film · 29 min

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Producer, director, Richard O. Moore; photographer, editor, Philip Greene In 1925 Flanner sent her first "Letter from Paris" to Harold Ross, the editor of a new magazine "The New Yorker." Providing Flanner with the pen name, Genet, Ross instructed her to write about what the French were thinking and doing, not about what the American tourist thought of Paris. During almost fifty years abroad, Flanner filled her Paris letters with insights on European society and politics from her perspective as…

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