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She was a familiar figure in Greenwich Village and Left Bank literary and lesbian circles during the teens, twenties, and thirties. Admired by her contemporaries for her wickedly incisive wit as well as for her great beauty and style, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) consorted with the likes of Berenice Abbott, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, Natalie Barney, Mina Loy, James Joyce, Peggy Guggenheim, Kay Boyle, Emily Coleman, Ezra Pound, and Dag Hammarskjold. T. S. Eliot, who was among her greatest admirers, sponsored the publication of Barnes's most famous work, the novel Nightwood. Yet even in her…
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3 editions · 2 languages- Hardcover · English · 1995Viking Adult · 416 pages · 9780670849697
- Other · English · 1996Penguin (Non-Classics) · 416 pages · 9780140178425
- Paperback · Spanish · 1997Djuna BarnesCIRCE · 384 pages · 9788477651376
American NovelistsAmerican Women novelistsBiographyLesbiansBarnes, djuna, 1892-1982Lesbians, biographyAuthors, biography