PARIS by GÊnet

It's the birthday of writer Janet Flanner, (books by this author) born in Indianapolis, Indiana (1892). Flanner studied at the University of Chicago, but after two years she was asked to leave by the college administration, because she was "a rebellious influence." So she moved back to Indianapolis and began writing for newspapers and making speeches in support of women's suffrage. She finally decided to move to New York City, where she said, "[I] wanted to learn to be the writer I had for 25 years already wished to be."
She didn't manage to become a literary success, but she became friends with a woman named Jane Grant, whose husband, Harold Ross, was then thinking about starting a magazine. In 1922, Flanner took a trip to Europe and decided to settle in Paris. She began writing letters home to her friend, Jane Grant, and Grant shared the letters with Harold Ross. By the time The New Yorker was getting off the ground in 1925, Harold Ross invited Flanner to contribute a letter to the magazine every two weeks. She would go on to write the "Letter from Paris" from October 10, 1925, until September 29, 1975.
At first Flanner just saw the magazine assignment as a way of making extra money while she wrote novels. But she eventually realized that the "Letter from Paris" was becoming her life's work. Her writings from Paris were collected in Men and Monuments (1957), two volumes of Paris Journal (1965 and 1971), and Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 (1972). She also collected her profiles in An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude Between Two Wars (1940).