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Developing a Personal Style: Janet Flanner's Literary Journalism

Abstract Janet Flanner's writing has received little attention in the history of literary journalism. Yet Flanner saw herself as writing journalism in a literary style. Beginning in 1925 as the French correspondent for The New Yorker, Flanner developed a personal style that relied on the richness of accurate and penetrating details to reveal an inner story, a story shaped around a central theme, told in an intimate and often humorous or ironic voice. By closely examining her work from 1925 through the 1930s, this article discusses Flanner's development of her own style of literary journalism in which she used many of the techniques later identified as those of “new journalism,” and argues that her work should be included as a part of any history of literary journalism.