SOURCE: "Anaïs Nin in the Diary: The Creation and Development of a Persona," in Mosaic, Vol. 11, No. 2. Winter 1978, pp. 9-19.
In the following essay, Schneider traces the evolution of the narrator in the Diary, contrasting the persona therein with Nin herself and maintaining that the Diary's narrator is a literary creation more than an accurate and objective representation of Nin.
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