Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

Anaïs Nin was born in Neuilly, France, to artistic parents.

After her parents separated, her mother moved Anaïs and her two brothers, Thorvald Nin and Joaquin Nin-Culmell, to Barcelona, and then to New York City.

Anaïs Nin is perhaps best remembered as a diarist.

Previously unpublished works are coming to light in A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, which most recently includes " Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin y Castellanos: Prelude to a Symphony — Letters between a father and daughter.

Portrait of Anaïs Nin in the 1970s by Elsa Dorfman

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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932 – 1953.

In May 1926, having made emotional relationship in the " here-and-now " central to his practice of psychotherapy, Rank moved to Paris where he became a psychotherapist for artists such as Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin and lectured at the Sorbonne ( Lieberman, 1985 ).

Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

There he worked on Cooney's magazine The Phoenix and met Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, who both admired his poetry.

In Henry & June, Henry Miller is shown watching the last scenes of the film and in voice-over narrates a letter to Anaïs Nin comparing her to Joan and himself to the " mad monk " character played by Antonin Artaud.

She was friends with many of the eminent authors of her time, including Robert Duncan, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller.

Other visitors included Buckminster Fuller, Anaïs Nin, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Max Ernst, Stuart Kaiser and other friends from her time in Paris.

Brown, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, René Char, Paul Éluard, Jean Genet, Natalia Ginzburg, Victor Hugo, Weldon Kees, Robert Lowell, Henry Miller, Eugenio Montale, Anaïs Nin, Charles Olson, Francis Ponge, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Rimbaud, Yannis Ritsos, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Shapiro, Stephen Spender, Leo Tolstoy, and Giuseppe Ungaretti.

His movies have adapted novels of widely different types – from Milan Kundera ’ s The Unbearable Lightness of Being to Michael Crichton ’ s Rising Sun ; from Tom Wolfe ’ s heroic epic The Right Stuff to the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin ’ s Henry & June.

During his frequent travels he met Anaïs Nin, lover of writer Henry Miller.

The band's name refers the period during which erotic fiction writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin corresponded.

Important foreign writers who have lived and worked in France ( especially Paris ) in the twentieth century include: Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugène Ionesco.

Her considerable resemblance to Anaïs Nin landed her the primary role in Henry & June ( 1990 ), in which she played the author.

They surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and the actress and famous Berlin dancer Valeska Gert.

Despite the attempts of her mother, therapists Rene Allendy and Otto Rank, and writer Henry Miller, to break Anaïs Nin of her dependence on the diary, she would continue to keep a diary up until her death in 1977.

Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin ( full title Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1931 – 1932 )) is a 1986 book that is based upon material excerpted from the unpublished diaries of Anaïs Nin.

The book was later filmed as Henry & June, with Fred Ward as Miller, Uma Thurman as June, and Maria de Medeiros as Anaïs Nin.

It published notorious works by Frank Harris, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, as well as several pieces of light erotica written by Kahane himself.

In June 1949, Anaïs Nin recorded a full version of House of Incest and four other stories from Under a Glass Bell.

It is loosely based on the book of the same name by the French author Anaïs Nin, and tells the story of Nin's relationship with Henry Miller and his wife, June.

It is a continuation of the diary entries first published in Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin.

In 1931, June met writer Anaïs Nin, who quickly became obsessed with her and, just as Henry Miller did, used her as a biographical archetype in many of her subsequent writings.

Anaïs Nin became his lover and financed the first printing of Tropic of Cancer in 1934 with money from Otto Rank.

* Dyin ' Day ( song ): 2012 song by Anaïs Mitchell from the album Young Man in America.

Faye Hamlin, Anna Sundstrand, Anaïs Lameche, and Rosie Munter formed Play's original line-up from the band's formation from 2001 until late 2003.

In 1914 he married for the first time to a Frenchwoman, Anaïs Folin, whom he used as the model for most of his early etchings of young womanhood ( especially from 1920 till 1934 ).

Anaïs Nin was a popular Cuban novelist born in Neuilly, an area in Paris and lived in Louveciennes from 1930 to 1936 at 2 bis, rue Montbuisson.

The opera was loosely based on the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites, led by Moses, rendered agreeable to the opera stage by introducing a love theme, in which the Pharaoh's son Amenophis ( tenor ) plans to prevent their departure, since he loves the Israelite Anaïs ( soprano ).

Anaïs Nin describes the process as akin to being " jected from a paradise of soundlessness .... thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.

In this, they offer the passage from House of Incest wherein Anaïs Nin writes, " Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers.

When Anaïs Nin first meets Henry Miller ( Fred Ward ), she sees in him a rough man from New York.

Under a Glass Bell, originally published in 1944, was the first book by Anaïs Nin to gain attention from the literary establishment.