Linda Simon

Linda Simon is professor of English emerita at Skidmore College. She is the author of many books, including Coco Chanel and The Greatest Shows on Earth:A History of the Circus. Her latest book is Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper.

Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel.

Flappers Took the Country by Storm, But Did They Ever Truly Go Away

Women of the Roaring Twenties had a lot in common with today's millennials

Page 1 of 1