Janet Flanner was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent for the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 under the pen name "Genêt." She also wrote a novel, The Cubical City, set in New York City. Flanner was a prominent member of America's expatriate community living in Paris before World War I. She returned to New York during the war and split her time between the United States and France until her death in 1978.
