Nancy Cunard

Nancy Cunard
Born	Nancy Clara Cunard (1896-03-10)10 March 1896 London, England
Died	17 March 1965(1965-03-17) (aged 69) Paris, France
Occupation	Writer Political activist
Nationality	British
Genre	Poetry
Spouse	Sydney Fairbairn ​ ​ (m. 1916; div. 1925)​
Relatives	Sir Bache Cunard (father) Maud Cunard (mother)

Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a British 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—as well as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brâncuși, Langston Hughes, Man Ray and William Carlos Williams. MI5 documents reveal that she was involved with Indian diplomat, orator, and statesman V. K. Krishna Menon.

In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her physical health deteriorated. When she died in the Hôpital Cochin, Paris, she weighed only 26 kg (57 pounds / 4 stone, 1lb).