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Djuna Barnes

1892 - 1982

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Djuna Barnes ( JOO-nah; June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) 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. In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. By early 1914, Barnes was a highly sought feature reporter, interviewer, and illustrator whose work appeared in the city's leading newspapers and periodicals. Later, Barnes's talent and connections with prominent Greenwich Village bohemians afforded her the opportunity to publish her prose, poems, illustrations, and one-act plays in both avant-garde literary journals and popular magazines, and publish an illustrated volume of poetry, The Book of Repulsive Women (1915). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Djuna Barnes is the 2,384th most popular writer (down from 1,789th in 2019), the 3,440th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,255th in 2019) and the 275th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Djuna Barnes ranks 2,384 out of 7,302. Before her are Heinrich Glarean, Petrus Comestor, Paul Féval, père, Catherine Breillat, Isaeus, and Philo of Byblos. After her are Hans Hellmut Kirst, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Dorothy Parker, Vítězslav Nezval, Shaul Tchernichovsky, and Tian Han.

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Among people born in 1892, Djuna Barnes ranks 117. Before her are Nikolai Polikarpov, William Powell, Alice Ball, Helmuth Plessner, Harry Dexter White, and Stanisław Maczek. After her are James M. Cain, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Adolf Ziegler, Eugen Meindl, Rebecca West, and Corrie ten Boom. Among people deceased in 1982, Djuna Barnes ranks 98. Before her are Valerio Zurlini, Savitri Devi, Helene Deutsch, Randy Rhoads, Riccardo Paletti, and Dorothy Round. After her are Vic Morrow, David Frankfurter, Karl Hein, Sultan al-Atrash, Pavel Rotmistrov, and Tadj ol-Molouk.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Djuna Barnes ranks 3,440 out of 20,380. Before her are Don Cheadle (1964), Sylvia Sidney (1910), Besse Cooper (1896), Jerry Seinfeld (1954), Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), and Howard P. Robertson (1903). After her are Paul Guilfoyle (1949), Lance Reddick (1962), Donald O'Connor (1925), Christopher Browning (1944), Dorothy Parker (1893), and Solomon Burke (1936).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Djuna Barnes ranks 275. Before her are Cornell Woolrich (1903), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jacques Futrelle (1875), and Annie Proulx (1935). After her are Dorothy Parker (1893), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), James M. Cain (1892), and Alex Haley (1921).

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