Anaïs Nin

Nin, Anaïs (1903–77), French-born U.S. author whose novels and stories depict the inner worlds of women in surrealistic and psychoanalytic fashion. Her novels include The House of Incest (1936) and Collages (1964). She is best known for The Diaries of Anaïs Nin (7 vols., 1966–80), which span the years 1931–74 and include portraits of such contemporaries as Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, and Marguerite Young.