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| Back | 1892-1982 American novelist, playwright and poet. Ladies ' Almanac, a celebration of lesbian life her best-known work is the novel Nightwood 1936 which concerns the relationships of a group of expatriates in Paris and Berlin the Antiphon 1958 is a full-length tragedy in blank verse which again takes up issues of family history. Djuna Barnes (/ˈdʒuːnɑː/, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.[2] Djuna Barnes  Djuna Barnes, c. 1921 BornJune 12, 1892 Storm King Mountain, Orange County, New YorkDiedJune 18, 1982 (aged 90) New York CityPen nameLydia Steptoe; A Lady of Fashion; and Gunga Duhl, the Pen Performer.[1]OccupationNovelist, poet, journalist, artistLiterary movementModernismNotable worksLadies Almanack (1928) Nightwood (1936) In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.[3] By early 1914, Barnes was a highly sought feature reporter, interviewer, and illustrator whose work appeared in the city's leading newspapers and periodicals.[4] Later, Barnes' talent and connections with prominent Greenwich Village bohemians afforded her the opportunity to publish her prose, poems, illustrations, and one-act plays in both avant-garde literary journals and popular magazines, and publish an illustrated volume of poetry, The Book of Repulsive Women (1915).[4][5] In 1921, a lucrative commission with McCall's took Barnes to Paris, where she lived for the next 10 years.[4] In this period she published A Book (1923), a collection of poetry, plays, and short stories, which was later reissued, with the addition of three stories, as A Night Among the Horses (1929), Ladies Almanack (1928), and Ryder (1928).[6] During the 1930s, Barnes spent time in England, Paris, New York, and North Africa.[7] It was during this restless time that she wrote and published Nightwood. In October 1939, after nearly two decades living mostly in Europe, Barnes returned to New York.[8] She published her last major work, the verse play The Antiphon, in 1958, and she died in her apartment at Patchin Place, Greenwich Village in June 1982.[9][10] |
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