Anais Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, born on February 11, 1903 and known simply as Anais Nin, was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an independently established and controversial author.