Writers similar to or like Natalie Clifford Barney

American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Wikipedia

American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. Known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, Ulysses , and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923). Wikipedia

American poet, novelist and essayist. Openly gay. Wikipedia

American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt". Wikipedia

American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. Wikipedia

Expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. The eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell. Wikipedia

Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English. Wikipedia

French poet, playwright, and novelist. Awarded several poetry prizes by the Académie française. Wikipedia

Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. Wikipedia

American poet, novelist, and memoirist, associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, including Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H.D. Wikipedia

British-American novelist and playwright. Best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy , A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Wikipedia

American painter. Active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Wikipedia

Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Wikipedia

1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Wikipedia

British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. Supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France. Wikipedia

American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter. Adapted into the landmark 1943 musical Oklahoma!. Wikipedia

American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. Wikipedia

American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Wikipedia

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she published the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Wikipedia

Expatriate American sculptor, painter and author living in Paris, France. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and became the assistante d'atelier of the sculptor Jean Cardot, before her work gained attention in its own right. Wikipedia

American novelist and playwright, and partner of American author Truman Capote. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was raised in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wikipedia

Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist. The first and, for a time, the only Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes; her egalitarian views of gender, race and ethnicity were progressive for their time and helped lay the groundwork for such later Chicana feminists as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros. Wikipedia

Romanian novelist, playwright, poet, journalist and critic, noted as a representative of rebellious modernism in the context of Romanian literature. As a member of the Sburătorul circle and close friend of its founder Eugen Lovinescu, Aderca promoted the ideas of literary innovation, cosmopolitanism and art for art's sake, reacting against the growth of traditionalist currents. Wikipedia

Austrian playwright and novelist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Wikipedia