Djuna BarnesDjuna Barnes (1892-1982) was an American writer and artist known for her novel Nightwood, a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. She played a significant part in the development of twentieth-century English-lnguage modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 1930s bohemian Paris after filling a similar role in the Greenwich Village of the teens. Read More Read Less