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.

Books by Anais Nin

3 Books found
Delta of Venus

Authors: Anais Nin

In Biography and Memoir, Literary

By Allegra Goodman

Nin's essence and e r o t i c expressions easily makes her one of the most debatable writers of the twentieth century.

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

Authors: Anais Nin

In Arts & Musics, Literary

By Allegra Goodman

Nin's essence and erotic expressions, professed here in these letters, easily makes her one of the most debatable writers of the twentieth century.

A Spy In The House of Love

Authors: Anais Nin

In Avant-garde

By Allegra Goodman

"Anais Nin penned A SPY in the Spring of wantonness and so it serves as a frontend support latter to the four legged stool that sparkles wonderfully as a seat of literary w h o r e d o m." —Zane