Full name: Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes

Author: Phillip Herring Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780670849697 0670849693

An in-depth biography of Djuna Barnes (1892-1992), a familiar figure in Greenwich Village and Left Bank literary and lesbian circles during the 1920s and 1930s. Mostly remembered for her novel "Nightwood", she wrote many poems, plays and stories now all but forgotten, as are her drawings and paintings. The book explores Djuna Barnes's family life, including her possibly erotic relationship with her feminist and spiritualist grandmother, and her relationship with her bigamist father (who, some critics claim, may have sexually abused her). There are also chapters on her years as a journalist, and on the writing and publication of "Nightwood". Similar books: Mad World by Paula Byrne Jonathan Swift by Leo Damrosch Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Bravemouth by Pamela Stephenson Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee George Orwell by Gordon Bowker Alice James by Jean Strouse Paul Newman by Shawn Levy Louisa May Alcott by Martha Saxton Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli Salinger by David Shields Private Demons by Judy Oppenheimer Sidetracks by Richard Holmes Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris Grateful American by Gary Sinise Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski Desert Flower by Waris Dirie The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze