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Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist [4] who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. [5]
June Hildegarde Flanner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Frank Flanner and Mary Ellen Hockett. She had two older sisters, noted journalist Janet Flanner and Marie Flanner, a musician and composer. Frank Flanner was Indiana's first licensed embalmer and in 1881 he founded a company that is still in business as Flanner and Buchanan Funeral ...
Nearly 100 people who were part of Buchanan's orbit gathered at church to bid farewell to a man who had been a brother, an uncle, a friend and a mentor. He died homeless in a burning car.
From 1940 to 1978, she had a relationship with Janet Flanner, from 1940 to 1944, living together in New York City, [3] and then long-distance, Danesi Murray living in New York, Flanner in Paris. Flanner had also other relationships, and when Danesi Murray complained about that, Flanner replied: "You complain that I have three wives and the ...
Janet Flanner – writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975 Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) – editor-in-chief of The Baffler ; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas?
In 1898, Flanner donated some property that he owned in Indianapolis to the Charity Organization Society for use as a settlement house called Flanner Guild. After Flanner's death in 1912, [6] it was renamed Flanner House, serving as an African-American community service center to promote social, moral and physical welfare through educational and self-help programs; this coincided with a change ...
William Dunavant Jr. was born on December 19, 1932, to William and Dorothy Dunavant. He was educated first at The McCallie School in Chattanooga, then at Vanderbilt University, and received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Memphis State University.
Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (October 2, 1905 – December 11, 2002), was an American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist.She used her middle name, Marvin, both professionally and personally to distinguish herself from her cousin Mary Breckinridge (founder of the Frontier Nursing Service) and to avoid the prejudice against women that was prevalent at the time.