Publication Order of The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin Books
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920
1978
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two: 1920-1923
1982
Journal of a Wife: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923-1927
1983
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Four: 1927-1931
1985
Publication Order of The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin Books
Henry and June
1986
Incest
1992
Fire
1995
Nearer the Moon
1996
Mirages
2013
Trapeze
2017
The Diary of Others
2021
A Joyous Transformation
2023
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
1932
The Novel of the Future
1968
A Woman Speaks
1975
In Favor of the Sensitive Man
1976
A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (With: Henry Miller)
1987
The Mystic of Sex: Uncollected Writings, 1930-1974
1995
About Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (born 1903, died 1977) was a French-born American diarist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. She kept a journal from the age of eleven until her death, and the published volumes of that diary, together with the erotic collections “Delta of Venus” and “Little Birds”, are the books she is best known for.
Nin was born in Neuilly, France, to Cuban parents: the composer Joaquín Nin and the singer Rosa Culmell. Her parents separated when she was two, and her mother took Nin and her two brothers to Barcelona and then to New York City. She left high school in 1919 at sixteen. In 1923 she married the banker Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, and the couple moved to Paris the following year. Her first published book was “D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study” (1932), which she wrote in sixteen days.
In Paris she studied psychoanalysis with René Allendy and Otto Rank and began a long involvement with Henry Miller, financing the first printing of his “Tropic of Cancer” in 1934. Her first book of fiction, “House of Incest”, appeared in 1936, followed by “Winter of Artifice” in 1939, the year she left Paris for New York. The story collection “Under a Glass Bell” (1944) was issued by her own Gemor Press. Five novels, beginning with “Ladders to Fire” (1946), were gathered in one volume in 1959 as “Cities of the Interior”, a sequence built around three women who resemble aspects of the author. “Collages” (1964) was her last novel.
Wider recognition came in 1966 with the first volume of “The Diary of Anaïs Nin”, covering 1931 to 1934. Six more volumes followed. In the 1940s Nin had written erotic stories for an anonymous collector at a dollar a page, and in the 1970s she agreed to their publication: “Delta of Venus” came out in 1977 and “Little Birds” in 1979. She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1974 and died of cancer in Los Angeles on 14 January 1977.
Her literary executor, Rupert Pole, later issued unexpurgated versions of the journals, starting with “Henry and June” (1986), which Philip Kaufman filmed in 1990 as “Henry & June” with Maria de Medeiros as Nin. A further collection of erotica, “Auletris”, was published in 2016, and the most recent diary volumes are “The Diary of Others” (2021) and “A Joyous Transformation” (2023).
