The stories and novels of Anaïs Nin are highly distinctive creations of a groundbreaking writer who helped to define a feminine tradition in literature. Daring and determined, she broke through the barriers of convention to address such themes as...

Anais Nin (ca. 1903-1977) is best known for her erotica and for her seven volumes of diaries published from 1966 to the end of her life. Nin's other works, which include novels and short stories, are greatly influenced by Surrealism, a movement...

Anais Nin, author of fiction, criticism, and diaries, was born to artistic parents in Neuilly, France, outside Paris, on 21 February 1903. Her mother, Rosa Culmell Nin, a French-Dane, sang; her Spanish father, Joaquin, was a concert pianist and...

Of all the American expatriates in Paris between 1920 and 1940, Anais Nin was one of the few repatriates. She was born in Neuilly, outside Paris, to artistic parents. Her father, Joaquin, was a pianist and composer; her mother, Rosa, sang. She spent...