Birthdate: June 12, 1892
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Storm King Mountain, New York, United States
Died: June 18, 1982
Djuna Barnes was a versatile American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer renowned for her influential contributions to modernist literature. Starting as a freelance journalist and illustrator, she gained recognition for her work in major newspapers and periodicals. Barnes’s career thrived in Greenwich Village, where she published prose, poems, illustrations, and plays in literary journals and popular magazines. She spent a substantial time in Paris, creating notable works such as A Book and Ryder. Barnes persisted in writing and publishing, with her novel Nightwood becoming a cult classic in lesbian fiction.
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