American novelist, poet, illustrator, and playwright Djuna Barnes was born on 12 June 1892, and died in June 1982, six days after her 90th birthday.She was the last surviving member of the first generation of English-language modernists. Her free-love polygamist father, who was an unsuccessful composer, musician, and painter, had married Djuna’s mother in 1889, […]
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