Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes was an American modernist writer, journalist, and artist best known for her avant-garde novel "Nightwood" and her central role in the bohemian literary circles of early 20th-century Paris.

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instanceOf artist
human
journalist
modernist writer
novelist
playwright
poet
associatedWith James Joyce
Natalie Clifford Barney
Parisian expatriate community
Peggy Guggenheim
T. S. Eliot
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1892-06-12
dateOfDeath 1982-06-18
describedBySource Nightwood was praised by T. S. Eliot
educatedAt Art Students League of New York
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn campus)
surface form: Pratt Institute
familyName Barnes
genre drama
journalism
modernist fiction
poetry
givenName Djuna
hasInfluenced LGBT literary canon
hasPartInBibliography plays
poetry collections
short stories
influenced modernist writers and critics
queer literature
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
memberOf bohemian literary circles in Paris
movement avant-garde
modernism
modernist literature
name Djuna Barnes self-link
nationality American
notableFor depictions of lesbian and queer relationships in literature
notableWork Ladies Almanack
Nightwood
Ryder
Spillway
The Antiphon
The Book of Repulsive Women
occupation artist
illustrator
journalist
novelist
playwright
poet
writer
participantIn Lost Generation
surface form: Lost Generation literary scene

modernist literary movement in Paris
placeOfBirth Cornwall-on-Hudson
surface form: Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
placeOfDeath New York City
religion raised in an unconventional, non-orthodox household
residence Greenwich Village
surface form: Greenwich Village, New York City

Paris
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation bisexual
timePeriod 20th century
workedAs feature writer
illustrator for magazines
newspaper reporter

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Lost Generation hasNotableMember Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes name Djuna Barnes self-link