She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

Flanner was a prominent member of the American expatriate community which included Ernest Hemingway F. It was this connection that Harold Ross offered her the position of French Correspondent to the New Yorker. While in New York Janet Flanner moved in the circle of the Algonquin Round Table but was not a member.

Janet Flanner (March 13 1892 – November 7 1978) was an American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until Janet Flanner retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".