Her life is an anthology of daring and risk taking, from her start at age twenty as a model for Henry de Vry???s living pictures in Berlin at the Wintergarten, a much-admired form of art pornography, to being a chorus girl at Berlin???s Zentral Theater, a muse and lover to several artists and writers (including Djuna Barnes), a poet, a playwright, a novelist, an American immigrant in Sparta, Kentu