Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) was an American writer, journalist, illustrator and artist who began her career in 1913 drawing and reporting for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. She is best known for the novel Nightwood (1936), which she wrote during restless years in England, Paris and North Africa, and she also published the earlier book Ryder (1928). After nearly two decades living mostly in Europe, Barnes returned to New York in 1939, and she died in Greenwich Village in 1982.