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Barnes, Djuna

(Encyclopedia) Barnes, DjunaBarnes, Djunaj&oomacr;nˈə [key], 1892–1982, American author, b. Cornwall, N.Y. She is best known for her modernist novel Nightwood (1936), which, in its sense of…

Provincetown Players

(Encyclopedia) Provincetown Players, American theatrical company that first introduced the plays of Eugene O'Neill. The company opened with his Bound East for Cardiff at the Wharf Theatre,…

Barnes Foundation

(Encyclopedia) Barnes Foundation, museum and arborteum in Merion and Philadelphia, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872–1951, a wealthy…

Barnes, Albert

(Encyclopedia) Barnes, Albert, 1798–1870, American Presbyterian clergyman, b. Rome, N.Y. From 1830 he was pastor of the First Church in Philadelphia, mother church of the Presbyterian denomination in…

Barnes

(Encyclopedia) Barnes, former municipal borough, SE England. See Richmond upon Thames.

Berners, Juliana

(Encyclopedia) Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, JulianaBerners, Bernes, or Barnes, Julianabŭrˈnərz, bärnz [key], supposed early 15th-century author of a popular verse treatise on hunting. The treatise is…

Ben Barnes

Ben Barnes was plucked from a stage production of The History Boys to be the star of the Disney 2008 movie version of C.S. Lewis's book The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. A graduate of London'…

Julian Barnes

English writer Julian Barnes is best known as the novelist who won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for The Sense of an Ending. Once a journalist and television critic, Barnes began writing novels in the…