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Djuna Barnes was an American artist, writer, journalist, and illustrator. Her most notable literary work is the novel Nightwood (1936), a seminal piece of modernist literature and one of the most eminent examples of lesbian fiction. Fast Facts: Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on June 12, 1892. She was an American novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and visual artist, as well as an important figure in the Modernist movement.

The Djuna Barnes of legend is the glamorous figure cutting a dash in cape and cloche among the bohemian expatriates of 1920s Paris. The elderly Barnes, transplanted from this liberal Left Bank...

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of twentieth century English language modernist writing by women and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 1930s bohemian Paris, after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the 1910s.

Djuna Barnes Papers, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries Before publishing the plays and novels she's now known for, women's rights advocate Djuna Barnes was a journalist and ...

Her characters occupy sleazy bars, “pissoirs” and “degraded” apartments where “abominations” lurk in swill pails. They are nocturnal, “full to the gorge with misery”, outcast and angry. Rage is...

Barnes, though one of the great modernist writers, never reached the heights of fame that her contemporaries T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner did, and she was never able to top the critical success of Nightwood, which sold poorly despite the praise-filled reviews. Following the publication of the novel in 1936, Barnes lost more than a decade to alcoholism, during which time she lived primarily off the kindness of her friend Guggenheim.