Author: Anai’s Nin
Profile: Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was professionally known as Anai’s Nin. Anaïs Nin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France to Cuban parents and died in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She was a French-Cuban American diarist, author, writer of short stories and erotica, essayist and novelist. She completed her education at International College, Los Angeles. Hugh Parker Guiler and Robert Pole were her partners.
She spent the early years of her life in Cuba and Spain with around 16 years in France itself with the rest of her life in United States where she became an author.
The last years of her life, Nin spent in Los Angeles, California and succumbed to cervical cancer in 1977. Amidst renewed critical interest in her work and life, a lot of her works including collections of Little Birds and Delta of Venus were published posthumously.
Writing style: Right from eleven years of age, Anai Nin prolifically wrote journals and continued till the time of death. Her personal relationships and private thoughts were reflected in the journals Nin wrote. Her marriage to Rupert Pole and Hugh Parker Guiler, including her many affairs especially with writer Henry Miller and Otto Rank both of whom who positively impacted Nin and her writings are also described in her journals. Many short stories, essays, critical studies, novels and volumes of erotica have been written by Nin.
Published Texts:
Bibliography
Journals and Letters
The Early Diary of Anai’s Nin (1914-1931) in four volumes
The Diary of Anai’s Nin, in seven volumes
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love. The Unexpurgated Diary of Anai’s Nin (1931-1932) (1986)
1987 – A Literate Passion: Letters of Anai’s Nin & Henry Miller
1992 – Incest: From a Journal of Love
1995 – Fire: From A Journal of Love
1996 – Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love
2013 – Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anai’s Nin (1939-1947)
2017 – Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anai’s Nin (1947-1955)
Fiction
Novels
1936 – House of Incest
1939 – Winter of Artifice
1959 – Cities of the Interior (in five volumes):
· Ladders to Fire
· Children of the Albatross
· The Four-Chambered Heart
· A Spy in the House of Love
· Seduction of the Minotaur, originally published as Solar Barque (1958)
1964 – Collages
Short stories
Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories (written before 1932, published posthumously)
1944 – Under a Glass Bell
1977 – Delta of Venus
1979 – Little Birds
2016 – Auletris
Non-fiction
1932 – D.H.Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
1968 – The Novel of the Future
1976 – In Favor of the Sensitive Man
1976 – The Restless Spirit: Journal of a Gemini
Aphrodiisiac: Erotic Drawings
Filmography
1946 – Ritual in Transfigured Time
1952 – Bells of Atlantis
1954 – Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1974 – Anais Nin Observed
Awards and Acknowledgements:
Honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art
1974 – Elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters
1976 – Presented with a Lost Angeles Times Woman of the Year Award
