Dear Sophie -
JANET FLANNER was the Paris cultural correspondent for THE NEW YORKER magazine for 50 years, writing under the pen-name Genet. Her column was titled "letter from Paris".
She was friends with the other American Expats including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, e. e. cummings, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, and was key to introducing new French artists to the American public including Braque, Matisse, Andre Gide and Cocteau.
During WWII she was a war journalist living in New York and later covered the Nuremberg trials.
With love,
Mom