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. Stories from this author 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 September 2017