Nin, Anaïs ___ 1903-1977 ___ French ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Anaïs Nin was born in France, but, when only 11, her Cuban father left the family. Her Danish mother then took Anaïs and two brothers to New York City. At 20 she married a banker, Hugh Guiler, who later illustrated some of her books and went on to become a film maker. They moved to Paris, where Anaïs began writing fiction and where she fell in with the Villa Seurat group, which included the writers Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell, and had many affairs. One of her lovers was Otto Rank, a prominent Austrian psychologist, with whom she worked as a lay analyst. Although Nin's marriage was to last 50 years, she also maintained a second marriage with Rupert Pole in California, commuting for 25 years between Paris and the West Coast US. Although Nin wrote many short stories and some novels, Nin's diaries are considered to be her most enduring work. They cover almost her entire life, and provide an intimate insight into being a woman, a creative artist, an analyst and a lover. They also provide a unique commentary on other famous literary figures, but particularly Miller.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1914-1971 ___ literary art culture self people love/sex psychology US

WEB TEXT LINKS
various quotes
lots of extracts
a bit about

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
University of California (UCLA) Library, Department of Special Collections

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Diary of Anais Nin
Nearer the Moon: From a Journal of Love : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-1939
 

May 2005, July 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.