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Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French author who became famous for her promulgated diaries, which span more than lx years, beginning while she was eleven years old & ending shortly prior to her demise. Fallowing a deaths of Anaïs Nin & her foremost hubby, Hugh Guiler, a unexpurgated, or even uncensored, versions of her diaries were accredited by her 2nd hubby, Rupert Pole, & promulgated to awesome interest & acclamation.

Anaïs Nwithin was natural in Neuilly, France. When her parents separated, her mother moved Anaïs & her ii brothers to New York City. Patch however the adolescent, Nin abandoned formal schooling & began working as a model. Around 1923, she married Hugh Parker Guiler. A few moved to Paris, France the following month, in which Guiler pursued his banking career and Naround began to pursue her interest in writing, in which her number 1 promulgated act was the critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called "D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study." She too explored a field of psychotherapy, studying under a likes of Otto Rank, a adherent of Sigmund Freud.

Anaïs Nin is hailed by numerous critics when one of a finest examples of writers of female erotica. She was a 1st woman to really choose a realm. Prior to her, porn written by women was virtually unheard of, except for two or three writers like Kate Chopin. Nwithin, faced by having a desperate require for money, wrote the stories in Delta of Venus for the dollar a web page in the 1940s. She considered a characters inside her smut to become extreme impersonation & never arranged for the pornography to exist as published. Her writing was scandalously expressed for the instance. Inside her unexpurgated diaries, she wrote all about her intimate & romanticist relationship using her father.

Ninside was the friend, & in a select few suits lover, of numerous leading literary numbers, including Henry Miller, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, and Lawrence Durrell.

Her passionate romance & friendly relationship by using Miller (& his married woman, June, by owning whom she did non keep close at hand an affair every bit described in the Kaufman film, Henry & June) strongly influenced both the woman and the author. Within 1973 she received an honorary doctorate from Philadelphia College of Art. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974. Anaïs Nin died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on January 14 1977, her body was cremated, and her ashes were scattered across Santa Monica Bay.

Around 1990 Philip Kaufman made a film according to her novel Henry & June from The Journal of Love - The unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931-1932. It starred Maria De Medeiros as Nin, Fred Ward as Henry Miller, & Uma Thurman as June.

Up to now, a concerted sales of books by Anaïs Nin, including a porno, fiction, literary criticism, & diaries, exceed Three million.

List of works
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study Collages Winter of Artifice Under a Glass Bell House of Incest Delta of Venus Little Birds Cities of the Interior, in 5 volumes: Ladders to Fire Children of the Albatross The Four-Chambered Heart A Spy in the House of Love Seduction of the Minotaur The Diary of Anaïs Nin 7 volumes The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 4 volumes The Novel of the Future Henry and June Incest Fire Nearer the Moon

Thinking of Anais Nin
A website devoted to Nin that includes online recollections of people who actually knew the enigmatic author personally, as well as scholarly information and an online bookstore.

Anaïs Nin at Catharton Authors
Brief biography, list of works, message board, chat room and links list for Anaïs Nin.

Diaries of Anais Nin: Linotte excerpts
Detailed excerpts from Anais Nin's diaries, beginning with her earliest, LINOTTE 1914-1920.

Anais Nin
A brief profile of the author at the Cosmic Baseball Association's website.

Anaïs Nin Collection
Listing with the Gleeson Library's Geschke Center at the University of San Francisco. Includes biography, introduction to the collection, its scope and content, and a series description. [PDF]

Al's Anaïs Nin Page
Selections and review of diaries and novels with reviews, links, and contact information.

Dear Diary: Deirdre Bair on the Secret Life of Anaïs Nin
An interview with Nin biographer Bair, at the Salonmagazine.com website.


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