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Anaïs Nin


Born
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
February 21, 1903

Died
January 14, 1977

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

Influences
Djuna Barnes, D.H. Lawrence, Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Jean Cocteau, Mar ...more


Writer and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980).

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Little Birds
3.71 avg rating — 12,362 ratings — published 1979 — 117 editions
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House of Incest
3.84 avg rating — 3,257 ratings — published 1915 — 61 editions
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volu...
4.21 avg rating — 2,809 ratings — published 1967 — 52 editions
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4.20 avg rating — 1,750 ratings — published 1969 — 47 editions
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Series by Anaïs Nin

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
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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.”
― Anais Nin
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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Polls

September 2020 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, 31 pages, 1836
 
  66 votes, 22.4%

 
  63 votes, 21.4%

 
  55 votes, 18.6%

Under a Glass Bell by Anaïs Nin, 101 pages, 1944
 
  34 votes, 11.5%

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages, 1872
 
  28 votes, 9.5%

Youth by Joseph Conrad, 30 pages, 1898
 
  26 votes, 8.8%

The Star-Title Story by Arthur C. Clarke, 4-6 pages, 1955
 
  23 votes, 7.8%

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