[1] William Carlos Williams describes her thus: "Kitty Cannell in her squirrel coat and yellow skull cap, which made the French, man and woman, turn in the street and stare seeing a woman, approaching six feet, so accoutered".
She had an affair with Harold Loeb and they socialized with Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.
In A Farewell to Arms Hemingway based the character Helen Ferguson on Kitty, and also the character Frances Clyne in The Sun Also Rises, although she denied this, but a reading of her letters to Loeb indicates strong parallels with the story.
She became the Paris fashion correspondent for The New Yorker, and, during the German occupation, reported on occupying forces' press conferences for the New York Times.
Her only book was Jam Yesterday, a memoir of her childhood, which was spent shuttling back and forth between the U.S. and Canada.