Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin is one of the most unique literary figures of this century. As a novelist she has been distinctly catalytic, and her life-long diary resembles no other in the history of letters. From a small circle of admirers her audience has been transformed in recent years to a large following of international proportions. Her books have been published in a dozen languages, and she is in constant demand as a lecturer. In 1973 Anaïs Nin received the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art, and in 1974 she was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Children of the Albatross – On Sale
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The Sealed Room” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; “The Café” brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story.…
Collages
D. H. Lawrence
An Unprofessional Study
In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the book is hot out of the oven, when it is alive within oneself.…
The Four-Chambered Heart
The Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin's 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the pervading influence of the boat's watchman and Moré's wife Helba, developed a relationship.…
House of Incest
Ladders to Fire
After struggling with her own press and printing her own works, Anaïs Nin succeeded in getting Ladders to Fire accepted and published in 1946. This recognition marked a milestone in her life and career.…
Seduction of the Minotaur – On Sale
An excerpt from Seduction of the Minotaur: Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.…
A Spy in the House of Love
Although Anaïs Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic “distillations” of her secret diaries.…
Under a Glass Bell
Under a Glass Bell is one of Nin's finest collections of stories. First published in 1944, it attracted the attention of Edmond Wilson, who reviewed the collection in The New Yorker. It was in these stories that Nin's artistic and emotional vision took shape.…
Winter of Artifice
Three Novelettes
Winter of Artifice is a collection of novelettes by Anaïs Nin.
The Novel of the Future – On Sale
In The Novel of the Future, Anaïs Nin explores the act of creation—in literature, film, art, and dance—to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of modern fiction.…
Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories
These stories precede all of Nin's published work to date. In them are many sources of the more mature work that collectors and growing writers can appreciate. Written when Anaïs Nin was in her twenties and living in Louveciennes, France, these stories contain many elements that will delight her readers: details remembered from childhood, of life in Paris, the cafés, theatres; characters including dancers, artists, writers, women who devote themselves to their work and visions as well as romance, strangers met in the night; themes such as the scruples of lovers, the search for brilliant, imaginative living; the writer's experimentation with exotic words like "sybaritic" and "violaceous".…
Cities of the Interior
Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession.…
- Jane Nardin
- Muna Ndulo
Author of Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation: When the Wars End… - Tekaste Negash
- Samuel H. Nelson
Associate professor of history at the U.S… - Mary Lou Nemanic
Associate professor of communications at Penn State Altoona… - Howard Nemerov
- Kirk Nesset
- Stephanie Newell
Reader in English literature at the University of Sussex and the author of West African Literature: Ways of Reading, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana, and Ghanaian Popular Fiction: How to Play the Game of Life… - Beth Newman
Named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor… - Anh Tuan Nguyen
- Ngọc Huy Nguyễn
- Alfred Nhema
Executive secretary of OSSREA, the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa… - Anaïs Nin
One of the most unique literary figures of this century… - Allen G. Noble
- Joan Russell Noble
- Henk Schulte Nordholt
Professor of Asian history at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and an associate professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam… - Gurney Norman
- Jane E. Norris
- Paul Nugent
Senior Lecturer in African History at Edinburgh University… - Frederick M. Nunn
Visiting professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson… - Celia Nyamweru
