Solita Solano
| Solita Solano | |
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| Born | Sarah Wilkinson 1888 |
| Died | 22 November 1975 Orgeval, Yvelines, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Poetry, Criticism, Fiction |
| Partner | Janet Flanner |
Solita Solano (1888 – 22 November 1975), born Sarah Wilkinson, was an American writer, poet and journalist.
Sarah Wilkinson came from a middle-class family and attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. After the death of her father, she left home and married her childhood sweetheart Oliver Filley. They spent the next four years in the Philippines, in China and in Japan, where her husband worked as an engineer. They returned to New York in 1908, where she started work as a theatre critic and drama editor with the New York Tribune and as a freelance contributor to the National Geographic Society. At this time she changed her name to Solita Solano.
In 1919, Solano got to know the journalist Janet Flanner in Greenwich Village with whom she started a relationship. In 1921 they travelled to Greece, where Janet was to work on a report for National Geographic on Constantinople. Solano had three books published, and as they were not very successful, returned to journalism. In 1922, they travelled to France, and in Paris they joined the intellectuel-lesbian circle of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Natalie Clifford Barney, Romaine Brooks and Djuna Barnes.
In 1929, Solano had an affair with Margaret Anderson, founder of The Little Review, who had come to Paris with her lover, French singer Georgette Leblanc. The affair lasted several years, though Anderson remained living with Leblanc.
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