Anaïs Nin
author profile
born
February 21, 1903
died
January 14, 1977
gender
female
place of birth
Neuilly, France
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories
about this author
French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)
Anaïs Nin was largely ignored until the 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the leading women writers of the 20th-century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles.
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Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.71 — 1,669 ratings — published 1977 35 editions |
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Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-1932) by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.99 — 1,429 ratings — published 2001 11 editions |
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Little Birds by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.74 — 1,356 ratings — published 1982 19 editions |
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 (1931-1934) by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.94 — 1,053 ratings — published 1969 8 editions |
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A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.67 — 674 ratings — published 1978 20 editions |
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2 (1934-1939) by Anaïs Nin avg rating 4.00 — 521 ratings — published 1970 7 editions |
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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 by Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller avg rating 4.15 — 352 ratings — published 1989 7 editions |
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House Of Incest by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.74 — 382 ratings — published 1958 6 editions |
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3 (1939-1944) by Anaïs Nin avg rating 4.04 — 325 ratings — published 1971 6 editions |
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Ladders To Fire by Anaïs Nin avg rating 3.64 — 210 ratings — published 1959 6 editions |
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin
6 editions— Anaïs Nin
tags:
life,
philosophy
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin
6 editions
— Anaïs Nin
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin
6 editions
— Anaïs Nin
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