Calling Card: Janet Flanner

Calling card for the American lesbian author and journalist Janet Flanner (1892-1978) bearing the words "Miss Janet Flanner" at upper left and "Paris" at lower right. Offset in black ink on white bristol card stock.

Flanner lived in Paris from the mid-1920s until 1975, with the exception of the years of the Nazi Occu­pation. She was a central member of the American expatriate community where her friends in­clu­ded Djuna Barnes, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein and other major queer literary figures. Under the pen name Gênet, Flanner authored a long-running "Letter From Paris" for The New Yorker.