title: Anais Nin: A Biography
author:  Deirdre Bair 
description: Biography of Nin, a bohemian writer best known for her voluminous diary and her sexually explicit fiction. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  > Partly of Spanish origin, Anaïs Nin was also of Cuban, French and Danish
  > descent. She was born in Paris and spent her childhood in various parts of
  > Europe. Her father left the family for another woman, which shocked Anaïs
  > profoundly and was the reason for her mother to take her and her two
  > brothers to live in the United States. Later Anaïs Nin moved to Paris with
  > her husband, and they lived in France from 1924 to 1939, when Americans left
  > on account of the war. She was analysed in the 1930s by René Allendy and
  > subsequently by Otto Rank, with whom she also studied briefly in the summer
  > of 1934. She became acquainted with many well-known writers and artists, and
  > wrote a series of novels and stories.
  
    
    
  
  > Her first book – a defence of D. H. Lawrence – was published in the 1930s.
  > Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936), was followed by the collection of
  > three novellas, Winter of Artifice (1939). The quality