Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (full name: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977. (/ˌænaɪˈiːs ˈniːn/,[1] French: [ana.is nin]), was a French-Cuban-American novelist.
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| Born | Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell 21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Died | 14 January 1977 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | writer |
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Her books were the basis of movies, including Henry & June (1990) and Delta of Venus (1994). She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris. Her parents were from Cuba. Her father Joaquín Nin was a well-known composer. Her mother Rosa Culmell was a classical singer. She spent her early years in Spain and Cuba and then lived in Paris. In Paris she became a close friend of the writer Henry Miller. She helped him get his first novel, Tropic of Cancer, published and wrote the preface to it.[2][3]
She later moved to the United States and died there of cancer in Los Angeles.[4][5]
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Anaïs Nin as a teenager, c. 1920
Portrait of Anaïs Nin in the 1970s by Elsa Dorfman
References
- ↑ Sayre, Robert F., ed. (1994). American Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 597. ISBN 978-0-299-14244-5.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica (2018). "Anaïs Nin". Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ↑ Campbell, James (1 June 2016). "Miller’s fail". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ↑ Doyle, Sady (7 April 2015). "Before Lena Dunham, there was Anaïs Nin – now patron saint of social media". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ↑ Fraser, C. Gerald (16 January 1977). "Anais Nin, Author Whose Diaries Depicted Intellectual Life, Dead". New York Times, p. 28. Retrieved 25 July 2018.