Nancy Cunard
Author
1896 – 1965
Who was Nancy Cunard?
Nancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brâncuși, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. MI5 documents reveal that she was involved with Indian socialist leader VK Krishna Menon. In later years, she suffered from mental illness, and her physical health deteriorated. She died at age 69, weighing only 26 kilos, in the Hôpital Cochin, Paris.
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- Born
- Mar 10, 1896
London - Also known as
- Nancy Clara Cunard
- Parents
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Nevill Holt
(1896 - 1910) - Paris
(1920 - )
- Nevill Holt
- Died
- Mar 17, 1965
Hôpital Cochin - Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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