7 results for '"Janet Flanner"'

Very slight shelfware to DJ, No other damage. Author joined the Left Bank American literary colony in the 1920's. Pen name Ganet.

In 1919 Sylvia Beach "opened an American bookshop in Paris called Shakespeare and Company. During the following two decades it became practically a clearing house for writers of this vital post-1918...

The thrilling untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a...

"In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker's midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six...

Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a four-month journey that took her...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award "Meticulously researched." --The New York Times "A first-rate biography." --Washington Post A lively and intimate...

This Library of America volume (along with its companion) evokes an extraordinary period in American history—and in American journalism. Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle, John Hersey, A.J. Liebling,...