(February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977)
Full birth name: Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin was born in France. Her father
was the composer Joaquin Nin, who grew up in Spain but was born in and returned
to Cuba. Her mother, Rosa Culmell y Vigaraud, was of Cuban, French, and Danish
ancestry. Anais Nin moved to the United States in 1914 after her father deserted the family.
In the United States
she attended Catholic schools, dropped out of school, worked as a model and
dancer, and returned to Europe in 1923.
Anais Nin studied psychoanalysis with Otto Rank and briefly
practiced as a lay therapist in New York. She was a patient of Carl Jung for a
time as well.
Finding it difficult to get her erotic
stories published, Anais Nin helped found Siana Editions in France in 1935. By
1939 and the outbreak of World War II she returned to New York, where she became
a figure in the Greenwich Village crowd.
An obscure
literary figure for most of her life, when her journals -- kept since 1931 --
began to be published in 1966, Anais Nin entered the public eye. The ten volumes of
The Diary of Anaļs Nin have remained popular. These are more than simple
diaries; each volume has a theme, and were likely written with the intent that
they later be published. Letters she exchanged with intimate friends, including
Henry Miller, have also been published. The popularity of the diaries
brought interest in her previously-published novels. The Delta of Venus
and Little Birds, originally written in the 1940s, were published
after her death (1977, 1979).
Anais Nin is known, as well, for
her lovers, who included Henry Miller, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal and Otto Rank.
She was married to Hugh Guiler of New York who tolerated her affairs. She also
entered into a
second, bigamous marriage to Rupert Pole in California. She had the marriage annulled about the time she was achieving more widespread fame. She was living with Pole at the time of her death, and he saw to the publication of a new edition of her diaries, unexpurgated.>
The ideas of
Anais Nin
about "masculine" and "feminine" natures have influenced that part of the
feminist movement known as "difference feminism." She disassociated herself late
in her life from the more political forms of feminism, believing that
self-knowledge through journaling was the source of personal liberation.
Anais Nin's Narratives. Anne T. Salvatore, editor.
Hardcover, 2001.
Arrows of Longing: the Correspondence Between Anais Nin
and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976. Paperback. 1998.
Celebration! with Anačis Nin.
Cities of the Interior: Ladders to Fire, Children of the
Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart. Hardcover. 1974.
Cities of the Interior. Paperback. 1975.
Collages. Jean Varda, illustrator. Paperback. 1964.
Conversations with Anais Nin (Literary Conversations
Series). Wendy M. Dubow, editor.
D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study.
Paperback. 1977.
Delta of Love: Erotica. Paperback. 1989.
Diary of Anais Nin. Vol. 2.
Diary of Anais Nin 1939-1944.
Vol. 3.
Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947. Vol. 4.
Diary of Anais Nin 1947-1955. Vol. 5.
Diary of Anais Nin 1955-1966. Vol. 6.
Diary of Anais Nin 1966-1974. Vol. 7.
The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1920-1923. Paperback.
1983.
The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1923-1927. Paperback.
1986.
The Early Diary of Anais Nin 1927-1931. Paperback.
1985.
Fire: From a Journal of Love, the Unexpurgated Diary of
Anais Nin, 1934-1937. Paperback. 1996.
The Four-Chambered Heart. Paperback. 1974.
Henry and June. Paperback. 1990.
Illustrated Delta of Venus. with N. Clarke.
In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays.
Paperback. 1976.
Incest: From 'A Journal of Love' - the Unexpurgated
Diaries of Anais Nin 1932-1934. Paperback.
Incesto, Diario No Expurgado 1932-1934. Paperback.
1995.
Journal of a wife: the early diary of Anačis Nin,
1903-1927.
Journals of Anais Nin Volume 2.
Journals of Anais Nin Volume 4.
Journals of Anais Nin Volume 5.
Journals of Anais Nin Volume 6.
La-Maison de l'Inceste. Paperback. 2000.
Ladders to Fire. Reprint, 1995.
Letters to a Friend in Australia.
Linotte, the Early Diary of Anais in 1914-1920.
The Mystic of Sex and Other Writings. Gunther
Stuhlmann, editor.
Nearer the Moon: From a Journal of Love - The
Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-1939. Hardcover. 1996.
Novel of the Future.
Paris revisited.
Photographic Supplement to the Diary of Anais Nin.
Paperback. 1974.
Seduction of the Minotaur: Cities of the Interior, Vol.
5. Paperback. 1974.
Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug
Experience, Including Charlotte Bronte, Louisa May Alcott, Anais Nin, Maya
Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Carrie Fisher, and Others. Michael Horowitz, editor, Cynthia Palmer, editor. Paperback. 2000.
Under a Glass Bell, and Other Stories. Gunther
Stuhlmann, editor. Paperback. 1995.
Waste of Timelessnes, and Other Early Stories.
Gunther Stuhlmann, editor. Paperback. 1994.
The White Blackbird.
Winter of Artifice: Three Novelettes. Paperback.
1990.
Nin, Anais and friends. White Stains. Hardcover.
1995.
Anais Nin Herself: Read Selections From Her Diaries,
1931-24. Audio Cassette. 1992.
Anais Nin, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, e.e. cummings
[Abridged]. Audio Cassette.
Art & Spirit. Audio Cassette. 1972.
The Craft of Writing. Audio Cassette. 1973.
An Evening with Anais Nin. Audio Cassette. 1972.
Smith, Lillian, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Parker,
Anais Nin. Great Women Writers Read Their Work.
Audio Cassette. 1989.
About Anais Nin:
Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors. Paul Herron,
editor. 1996.
The Critical Response to Anais Nin. Philip K. Jason,
editor. Hardcover.
Recollections of Anais Nin by Her Contemporaries.
Benjamin Franklin, editor.
Bair, Deirdre. Anais Nin: A Biography. 1994/1996.
Chicago, Judy. Through the Flower: My Struggle as a
Woman Artist. Anais Nin, introduction. Paperback. 1993.
Cutting, Rose Marie. Anais Nin : A Reference Guide
(Reference Publication in Literature). Hardcover. 1978.
Deduck, Patricia A. Realism, Reality and the Fictional
Theory of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Anais Nin.
Duxler, Margot. Seduction: A Portrait of Anais Nin.
Hardcover. 2002.
Evens, Oliver. Anais Nin.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin.
1994.
Franklin, Benjamin. Anačis
Nin: a bibliography.
Franklin, Benjamin and Duane Schneider. Anais Nin: An
Introduction.
Hinz, Evelyn J. The Mirror and the Garden: Realism and
Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin.
Holt, Rochelle Lynn. Anais Nin: An Understanding of Her
Art.
Jason, Philip K. Anais Nin and Her Critics (Studies in
English and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture). Hardcover.
1993.
Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. Anais Nin (Modern Literature
Monographs).
Miller, Henry and Gunther Stuhlman, editor. Letters to
Anais Nin.
Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Anais Nin, preface.
Paperback. 1987.
Nalbantian, Suzanne. Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life
to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin.
Paperback. 1997.
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