Quote of the day
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Djuna Barnes
Born: June 12, 1892
Died: June 18, 1982 (aged 90)
Bio: Djuna Barnes was an American writer and artist best known for her novel Nightwood, a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.
Known for:
- Ladies Almanack (1928)
- The book of repulsive women (1915)
- The Antiphon (1958)
- Smoke, and other early stories (1982)
- Poe's Mother
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