Full name: Anais Nin: A Biography

Author: Deirdre Bair Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780399139888 0399139885

Arguably the world's most famous diarist, Anais Nin drew much of her acclaim from her shocking accounts of artistic and sexual self-exploration within the avant-garde worlds of Paris, New York, and Hollywood. But who was this woman whose peccadilloes led to relationships of bigamy and incest, who freely offered her body and her husband's money to some of the most brilliant men of her era - including Henry Miller and Edmund Wilson and Otto Rank - whose desperate cravings for love, recognition, and approval from the intellectual elite remained unsatisfied until the end of her life? Deirdre Bair, who had exclusive access to Nin's complete, original diary and the full cooperation of her surviving husband, family, and friends, offers an enthralling portrait of a complex, perplexing writer whose most compelling subject was, unfailingly, herself. Similar books: Anais by Noel Riley Fitch A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt Savage Art by Robert Polito Cheever by Blake Bailey Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley Tove Jansson by Tuula Karjalainen Soldier by Karen DeYoung Albert Camus by Herbert R. Lottman Truman Capote by George Plimpton Saint-Exupery by Stacy Schiff Grateful American by Gary Sinise Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski Desert Flower by Waris Dirie The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze