Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
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Background
- Born in
- Cornwall-on-Hudson
- Educated at
- Art Students League of New YorkPratt Institute
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself."
"Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on."
"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment."
"In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time."
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1892
Born
Birth1982
Died
Death
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