Nin often cited authors Djuna Barnes and D. H. Lawrence as inspirations.

In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West.

* 1892 – Djuna Barnes, American author ( d. 1982 )

Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.

* Barnes, Djuna.

A drawing of Joyce ( with eyepatch ) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.

* Djuna Barnes, author of Nightwood was born in a log cabin on Storm King Mountain in Cornwall in 1892.

* Djuna Barnes, ( 1892 – 1982 ) writer in Greenwich Village and Paris.

She met Djuna Barnes during this time, and in time became her friend and patron.

In 1922, at age eleven, he bought his first book of poetry, Arthur Waley's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, and at age seventeen one of his poems, " Spire Song ", was accepted for publication in the twelfth volume of Transition, a literary journal based in Paris that served as a forum for some of the greatest proponents of modernism — Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, Paul Éluard, Gertrude Stein and others.

Contributors also included Pound, Eliot, H. D., Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg and Wallace Stevens.

Cover illustration, The Trend magazine, by Djuna Barnes, issue of October 1914.

Barnes was angry that Nin had named a character Djuna, and when the feminist bookstore Djuna Books opened in Greenwich Village, Barnes called to demand that the name be changed.

* I Could Never Be Lonely without a Husband: Interviews by Djuna Barnes ( 1987 ) – ed.

* Collected Stories of Djuna Barnes ( 1996 )

During her three years in Paris, she, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes would develop lifelong friendships.

She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.

* Mina Loy and Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy: Drafts of " Nancy Cunard ", Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, accessed January 30, 2008.

The other three novels are Djuna Barnes ' Nightwood, Carson McCullers ' Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms.

She has been compared to Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin, as well as Kafka.

68 ( January – June 1920 ) Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Randolph Bourne, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, e. e. cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Paul Rosenfeld, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Gilbert Seldes ( Sganarelle ), Van Wyck Brooks, W. B. Yeats

" Djuna " is said to be a fictionalized version ( what she referred to as ' caricatured ') of the story eventually told in the portion of Nin's diary later published as Henry and June.

Fafa de Molokai, Debs Debaba, King Kester Emeneya ( 1977 – 1982 ), Koffi Olomide, as a singer, ( 1978 – 1979 ), Djuna Djanana ( 1978 – 1981 ), Dindo Yogo ( 1979 – 1981 ), Maray-Maray ( 1980 – 1984 ), Lidjo Kwempa ( 1982 – 2001 ), Reddy Amissi ( 1982 – 2001 ), Stino Mubi ( 1983 – 2001 ) are among the currently well-known Congolese musicians who have served at one time or another with Viva la Musica.

Flanner was a prominent member of the American expatriate community which included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, e. e. cummings, Hart Crane, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein – the world of the Lost Generation and Les Deux Magots.

75 ( July – December 1923 ) Djuna Barnes, Pierre Bonnard, Van Wyck Brooks, Karel Čapek, Adolphe Dehn, André Derain, Roger Fry, Alyse Gregory, Knut Hamsun, Manuel Komroff, Alfred Kreymborg, Julius Meier-Graefe, Marie Laurencin, George Moore, Paul Morand, Luigi Pirandello, Bertrand Russell, Edward Sapir, Georges Seurat, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf

He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes.

Among his circle of acquaintances were the newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, author Djuna Barnes ( to whom he was engaged ), and actor Charlie Chaplin.

The two women are portrayed as " Nip " and " Tuck " in the 1928 novel Ladies Almanack, by Djuna Barnes, who was a friend of Flanner's.

She once proclaimed that Djuna Barnes's work was " practically the only available expression of lesbian culture we have in the modern western world " since Sappho.

This Paris version contained three novelettes: " Djuna ", a story that was never again reprinted ; " Lilith ", whose title was changed to " Winter of Artifice " in future editions ; and " The Voice ", whose title remained the same but whose content was heavily revised over future editions.

It was also associated with the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson and Djuna Barnes.

As well as providing a personal record of events, her diaries also chronicle the writing of various works including the novella Djuna from Winter of Artifice and Alraune which was later titled House of Incest.

Contributors included: William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, Amy Lowell, H. D., Djuna Barnes, Man Ray, Skipwith Cannell, Lola Ridge, Marcel Duchamp, and Fenton Johnson ( poet ) ( the only African American published in the magazine ).

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

A fourth 1928 novel, Ladies Almanack by the American writer Djuna Barnes, not only contains a character based on Radclyffe Hall but includes passages that may be a response to The Well.

Not long after, he became part of Gertrude Stein's salon in Paris, where he met Natalie Barney, Man Ray, Kay Boyle, Janet Flanner, Peggy Guggenheim, Djuna Barnes and others of the American expatriate community in Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Près.

She shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with several others, including the writer Djuna Barnes, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley

In 1914 the writer Djuna Barnes underwent force-feeding for a story in The World Magazine about the experiences of suffragettes.

With Parker Tyler, who would later become a highly respected film critic, he co-authored The Young and Evil ( 1933 ), an energetically experimental novel with obvious debts to fellow writer Djuna Barnes, and also to Gertrude Stein, who called it " the novel that beat the Beat Generation by a generation ".

E. E. Cummings, who lived across the street, would check on her periodically by shouting out his window, " Are you still alive, Djuna?

In Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack ( 1928 ), a roman à clef of Natalie Barney's circle in Paris, she makes a brief appearance as Cynic Sal, who " dresse like a coachman of the period of Pecksniff "— a reference to the style of dress seen in her 1923 self-portrait.