Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner

Brenda Wineapple. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 (369pp) ISBN 978-0-8032-9740-1

Wineapple's intimate portrait skillfully situates Flanner (1892-1978), the New Yorker 's award-winning correspondent from Paris, at the center of that city's literary life. Photos. (Dec.)

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