1982 – Lesbian author Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) dies at age 90 in New York.
She was an American writer and artist best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. Barnes has been cited as an influence by writers as diverse as Truman Capote, William Goyen, Karen Blixen, John Hawkes, Bertha Harris, Dylan Thomas, David Foster Wallace, and Anaïs Nin.
Writer Bertha Harris described her work as “practically the only available expression of lesbian culture we have in the modern western world” since Sappho.
Source:
https://ronnisanlo.com/today-in-lgbt-history-june-18-3/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djuna_Barnes
