Anais Nin a Biography

This definitive biography of Anais Nin, based on unprecedented access to her unpublished archives and over 250,000 diary pages, offers a new portrait of the complex and controversial writer. It reveals Nin's lifelong struggle for literary respect and her intricate, often incomprehensible, personal life, including her thirty-year bigamy and her 'Lie Box.' The book fills in the gaps of her famous diaries, exploring how Nin's life reflected twentieth-century themes of self-discovery, psychoanalysis, and female sexual autonomy.