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3 unusual facts about Jennet Conant


Jennet Conant

Conant is the granddaughter of James Bryant Conant, noted chemist and President of Harvard University.

Her history of the organization known as British Security Coordination (BSC) chronicles the exploits of a charm brigade that included such recruits as Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming and David Ogilvy as well as the head of BSC, William Stephenson.

Paul Cushing Child

Conant, Jennet, A Covert ­Affair: Julia and Paul Child in the OSS (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), ISBN 1-4391-6352-9



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