Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) is best known for her novel Nightwood (Faber and Faber), a tragic novel about the gay expatriate life in Paris during the 1920s, which was acclaimed by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and others. Barnes’s many works also include Ryder (Boni & Liveright) and The Antiphon (Faber and Faber). She was also an accomplished journalist, artist and playwright.