Life for Janet Flanner was a tapestry of episodic but inter-connected events of which she was the common thread, coursing her way through each panel in a flowingly eloquent manner.  She was neither follower nor leader, but observer – her impartiality her vehicle of movement.  Janet was the astute observer of a changing society, not its constant, but its indicator, grounding her ideas against the multi-faceted panoply of life between the wars, and after.  She was the near-invisible foreign correspondent, choosing to be the visitor rather than the inhabitant. 

- Christopher M. Connolly

At left. Janet’s nephew John Monhoff, the last remaining Flanner, unveils a historic marker in Indianapolis erected in her honor in 2023.