Novelist, Poet (12-Jun-1892 — 18-Jun-1982)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Nancy M. Bombaci. Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers. Peter Lang. 2005. 175pp.

Mary Lynn Broe (editor). Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes. Southern Illinois University Press. 1991. 424pp.

Louise A. Desalvo. Conceived With Malice: Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, and Henry Miller. New York, New York: E. P. Dutton. 1994.

Andrew Field. The Formidable Miss Barnes: A Biography of Djuna Barnes. London: Secker and Warburg. 1983. 287pp.

Michaela Grobbel. Enacting Past and Present: The Memory Theaters of Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras. Rowman & Littlefield. 2003. 222pp.

Phillip Herring. Djuna: The Life and Work of Djuna Barnes. Viking. 1995.

Karen Kaivola. All Contraries Confounded: The Lyrical Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras. University of Iowa Press. 1991. 176pp.

Louis F. Kannenstine. The Art of Djuna Barnes: Duality and Damnation. New York University Press. 1977.

Douglas Messerli. Djuna Barnes: A Bibliography. New York: David Lewis, Inc.. 1975. 131pp.

Hank O'Neal. Life Is Painful, Nasty and Short... In My Case It Has Only Been Painful and Nasty: Djuna Barnes, 1978-1981: An Informal Memoir. New York: Paragon House. 1990. 253pp.

Cheryl J. Plumb. Fancy's Craft: Art and Identity in the Early Works of Djuna Barnes. Susquehanna University Press. 1987.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

5. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.46)

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.106)

7. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.20)

8. Contemporary Novelists (pp.81-83)

9. Twentieth Century Authors (p.72)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.55)

11. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.12)

12. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.79)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.40)

14. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.43)

15. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (p.64)

16. Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.48)

17. Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (p.94)

18. Legends in Their Own Time (p.17)

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