Henry and June

From the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin

Biography & Memoir Contemporary Literature

Pages: 274
Published: 1986
Language: English

Anaïs Nin's uncensored diaries reveal a passionate year in 1930s Paris. She finds herself drawn into a complex relationship with the writer Henry Miller and his wife, June. This intense connection leads to a liberating affair with Henry, challenging her marriage and her understanding of herself.

Prose complexity: 7/10

Emotional Complex Reflective Spicy

Forbidden Love Morally Grey Epistolary

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Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin is known internationally for her diary, eleven volumes of which have been published. The 35,000 handwritten pages of her journals are currently located in the UCLA library. She was born in Paris to Cuban parents, and spent her early years in Cuba and Spain. Her young adulthood was spent in Paris and she and her husband, Hugo Guiler, moved to the United States in 1939 to avoid World War II. After meeting Rupert Pole in 1947 she engaged in a "bicoastal trapeze" living with him in Lo...