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Previously unpublished works are coming to light in A Café in Space, the Anaïs Nin Literary Journal, which most recently includes " Anaïs Nin and Joaquín Nin y Castellanos: Prelude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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She was friends with many of the eminent authors of her time, including Robert Duncan, Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller.

The magnitude of edits to the text is comparable to other historical diaries such as those of Katherine Mansfield, Anaïs Nin and Leo Tolstoy in that the authors revised their diaries after the initial draft, and the material was posthumously edited into a publishable manuscript by their respective executors, only to be superseded in later decades by unexpurgated editions prepared by scholars.

As an avid reader, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin and Milan Kundera are among her favorite authors.

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

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 ).

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 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, House of Incest ( as ' Sabina ')

* 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

With regard to Odier, Anaïs Nin is noted to have written, " He is an outstanding writer and a dazzling poet.

Anaïs Helena Kretz Lameche ( born 19 August 1987 in French Alps, France ) is an original member of the Swedish pop group Play.

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.

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.

Haunted by childhood memories involving her father, Séverine goes to the high-class brothel, which is run by Madame Anaïs ( Geneviève Page ).

His work is commemorated in an essay by Anaïs Nin.

Delta of Venus is a book of short stories by Anaïs Nin.

It is featured prominently in Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva and Zalman King's film adaptation of Anaïs Nin's short story collection Delta of Venus.

Originally published in 1936, it is Anaïs Nin's first work of fiction.

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.

This is because in 1986, Rupert Pole, Anaïs Nin's widower and literary executor, began to publish what are now termed the " unexpurgated " versions of the diary.

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.