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Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes was born in 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson in New York State. In 1912 she enrolled as a student at Pratt Institute and then at the Art Students' League, and while she was there she started to work as a reporter and illustrator for the Brooklyn Eagle. In 1921 she moved to Paris, where she lived for almost twenty years and wrote for such publications as Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Nightwood, written in 1936, was her second novel. It is now considered a masterpiece, praised by T. S. Eliot for its 'great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy'. Her other works include A Book, a collection of short stories, poems and one-act plays; a satirical novel, Ladies Almanack; and a verse play, The Antiphon. She died in New York in 1982.

Djuna Barnes Books

I Am Alien to Life book cover

I Am Alien to Life

Djuna Barnes
Ladies Almanack book cover

Ladies Almanack

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Ryder book cover

Ryder

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Ryder book cover

Ryder

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Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth book cover

Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth

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Radical Shadows book cover

Radical Shadows

Bradford Morrow
Nightwood (New Edition) book cover

Nightwood (New Edition)

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Ladies Almanack book cover

Ladies Almanack

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