Nin, Anaïs

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Nin, Anaïs (1903–77) US novelist and diarist, b. France. She was part of the ‘Lost Generation’ of US expatriate writers in Paris during the 1920s. A student of Carl Jung, her novels are psychological studies. They include The House of Incest (1936) and Winter of Artifice (1939). Her diaries (Journals, 1966–80) aroused admiration and controversy. She is best-known for her erotic fiction, including Delta of Venus: Erotica (1977).

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