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Partly of Spanish origin, Anais Nin was also of Cuban, French and
Danish descent. She was born in Paris and spent her childhood in
various parts of Europe. Her father left the family for another
woman, which shocked Anais profoundly and was the reason for her
mother to take her and her two brothers to live in the United
States. Later Anais Nin moved to Paris with her husband, and they
lived in France from 1924 to 1939, when Americans left on account
of the war. She was analysed in the 1930s by Rene Allendy and
subsequently by Otto Rank, with whom she also studied briefly in
the summer of 1934. She became acquainted with many well-known
writers and artists, and wrote a series of novels and stories.
Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence - was published in the
1930S. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936), was followed by the
collection of three novellas, Winter of Artifice (1939). The
quality and originality of her work were evident at an early stage
but, as is often the case with avant-garde writers, it took time
for her to achieve wide recognition. The international publication
of her Journals won her new admirers in many parts of the world,
particularly among young people and students. Her novels, Ladders
to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy
in the House of Love and Seduction of the Minotaur, were first
published in the United States between the 19405 and the 1960s, and
eventually gathered in Cities of the Interior. She also wrote a
collection of short stories, Under a Glass Bell. In the 1940S she
began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces
are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published
posthumously). Penguin also publish A Woman Speaks, a collection of
lectures and interviews; Journal of a Wife, the third volume of The
Early Diary of Anais Nin, 1923-1927; In Favour of the Sensitive Man
and Other Essays; and, most recently, The Early Diary 1927-1931,
which is the fourth volume of her diary. Henry and June, a
chronicle of her passionate involvement with Henry Miller and his
wife June Mansfield, and Incest are the new volumes of the
'un-expurgated diary' of Anais Nin, distinguishable from her
previously published volumes by the references to both her husband
and her love life. Her books have been translated into twenty-six
languages around the world.
During her later years, Anais Nin lectured frequently at
universities throughout the USA. In 1973 she received an honorary
doctorate from Philadelphia College of the Art and in 1974 was
elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. She died in
Los Angeles in 1977.
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