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Previously unpublished works are coming to light in A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, which most recently includes " Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin y Castellanos: Prelude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 Spy in the House of Love is a 1954 novel by Anaïs Nin, part of her Cities of the Interior sequence, published by Swallow Press and British Book Centre, Paris and New York.

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

* A Spy in the House of Love, a 1954 novel by the French novelist Anaïs Nin

House of Incest is a slim volume of 72 pages written by Anaïs Nin.

Rank helped Anaïs edit House of Incest.

In Anaïs Nin: An Introduction, authors Duane Schneider and Benjamin Franklin V both argue that the basic theme of House of Incest is that ultimately life in the real world, which contains both pleasure and pain, is preferable to any self-created world that attempts to include only pleasure.

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

It has been written that at the time of the publication of " House of Incest ," which took place at around the same time that Anaïs Nin was having an incestuous relationship with her father, some members of the Nin family who knew about the incestuous relationship were " horrified " to know that Anaïs Nin was writing a book with this title.

* In the documentary film Anaïs Observed ( 1973 ) by Robert Snyder, Nin says House of Incest was based on dreams she'd had for more than a year.

Cities of the Interior is a novel sequence published in one volume containing the five books of Anaïs Nin's " continuous novel ": Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love and Seduction of the Minotaur.

* Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

Incest: From a Journal of Love "— The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1932 – 1934 ) reveals that the two were also having an affair.

Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1932 – 1934 ) is a 1992 non-fiction book by Anaïs Nin.

* Anaïs Nin, Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1931 – 1932

The book is a journey into the mind of Sabina, who is assumed by many to be a fictionalized version of author Anaïs Nin herself.

Initially, Nin meant Sabina to be based on her friend June Miller, and wrote House of Incest with Sabina standing in for June.

* A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin: Moe Szyslak refers to Artie Ziff as "... a spy in the house of Moe.

Nin was under the analysis of Otto Rank during the period of writing House of Incest.

Kala paw wut-htu (, ' modern novels ') became popular during this era, with P Moe Nin writing the first Burmese novels to focus on the individual and place that character at the center of the plot.

* the Women ’ s House Library Zine Collection at the Brisbane Rape and Incest Survivors Support Centre, Brisbane, Queensland

But unlike her diaries and erotica, House of Incest does not detail the author's relationships with famous lovers like Henry Miller, nor does it contain graphic depiction of sex.

Rather, House of Incest is a surrealistic look within the narrator's subconscious mind as she attempts to escape from a dream in which she is trapped, or in Nin's words, as she attempts to escape from " the woman's season in hell.

House of Incest is largely an attempt by the narrator to cope with the shock of the trauma of birth.

The prose of House of Incest is considered by many to be one of the major challenges of the work.

Duane Schneider and Benjamin Franklin V write that the prose of House of Incest is so challenging that it requires the total attention of the reader.

By the end of this volume, Henry has published Tropic of Cancer ( novel ) and she has completed House of Incest ( published, 1936 ) and Winter of Artifice ( published 1939 ).

As well as providing a personal record of events, her diaries also chronicle the writing of various works including the novella Djuna from Winter of Artifice and Alraune which was later titled House of Incest.