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born: 3/13/1892
died: 11/7/1978
born as: Janet Flanner

American writer and Paris correspondent for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1975 (except for the war years 1939-44). Hers was some of the most sophisticated, insightful, and cosmopolitan reportage from Paris during the period. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature