Barnes, Djuna (j

n`ə), 1892–1982, American author, b. Cornwall, N.Y. She is best known for her modernist novel Nightwood (1936), which, in its sense of horror and decay, was likened by T. S. Eliot, who edited the book, to an Elizabethan tragedy. Barnes also wrote several one-act plays produced by the Provincetown Players Provincetown Players, American theatrical company that first introduced the plays of Eugene O'Neill . The company opened with his Bound East for Cardiff
..... Click the link for more information. from 1919 to 1920. Her other works include Ryder (1928), a novel; collections of short stories and poems, including A Night Among Horses (1929) and Selected Works (1962); and The Antiphon (1958), a tragedy in verse.

Bibliography

See biographies by A. Field (1983, 1985) and P. Herring (1995).

Barnes, Djuna

(born June 12, 1892, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., U.S.—died June 18?, 1982, New York, N.Y.) U.S. writer. Barnes worked as an artist and journalist in her youth. She went to Paris in 1920, where she became a well-known figure in the literary scene. She wrote plays, short stories, and poems; her masterpiece, the novel Nightwood (1936), tells of the homosexual and heterosexual loves of five extraordinary people. After returning to New York in 1940, she wrote little and lived reclusively.

Barnes, Djuna (Linda Steptoe, pen name) (1892–1982) writer, poet; born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. She studied at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League, N.Y., illustrated, and wrote short stories, poetry, and plays. She became an expatriate in Paris (1920–40), then returned to New York City where she lived as a virtual recluse (1940–82). Her best known work is Nightwood (1936), a modernist novel praised by T. S. Eliot.