In Paris in 1924 Ernest Hemingway noted: "Djuna Barnes who, according to her publishers is that legendary personality that has dominated the intellectual night-life of Europe for a century is in town. I have never met her, nor read her books, but she...

Djuna Barnes is known primarily for her poetic novel Nightwood, first published in England in 1936. Few works so intensely distill the anguish of the American abroad in Paris in the twenties and thirties, cut off from his native roots in a culture that...

Journalist, dramatist, novelist, poet, short-story writer, and, most of all, enigmatic figure, Djuna Barnes has protected her privacy for the last forty-five years. Indeed, Douglas Messerli says that she is "perhaps the most private writer since Henry...

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was a major literary figure in Paris of the 1920s and 1930s, who retired into reclusiveness and produced only a small body of work. A major figure on the Paris literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, Djuna Barnes was best known...