Chapters (20)
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- Preface
- Ladders to Fire
- Main Characters
- Publishing History
- Prologue
- This Hunger
- Bread and the Wafer
- Children of the Albatross
- Main Characters
- Introduction
- The Sealed Room
- The Café
- The Four-Chambered Heart
- Beginning
- A Spy in the House of Love
- Publishing History
- Seduction of the Minotaur
- About the Author
- More Titles from Sky Blue Press
1933 Reunites with her father and they begin an incestuous relationship
1934 Comes to New York to help Otto Rank psychoanalyze patients; becomes Rank’s lover
1936 Self-publishes The House of Incest (Siana Editions)
1937 Meets Lawrence Durrell; she, Miller and Durrell begin planning a series of books
1939 Obelisk Press prints Nin’s The Winter of Artifice; Nin and Guiler fly to New York to avoid oncoming war
1940 Reunites with her two lovers, Miller and Moré, in New York
1942 Self-publishes Winter of Artifice (Gemor Press); breaks with Miller
1944 Self-publishes Under a Glass Bell (Gemor Press)
1945 Self-publishes This Hunger (Gemor Press); meets Gore Vidal
1946 E. P. Dutton publishes Ladders to Fire
1947 Dutton publishes Children of the Albatross; Nin meets Rupert Pole and drives to California with him; begins her “double life,” dividing her time between Pole in California and Guiler in New York; breaks with Moré
1950 Duell, Sloan and Pearce publishes The Four-Chambered Heart
1954 The British Book Centre publishes A Spy in the House of Love
1955 Nin bigamously marries Pole
1957 Avon republishes A Spy in the House of Love, which becomes Nin’s best seller to date
1958 Self-publishes Solar Barque
1959 Self-publishes Cities of the Interior
1961 Signs with publisher Alan Swallow, who publishes Seduction of the Minotaur and reprints her earlier fiction
1964 Swallow publishes Collages, Nin’s final work of fiction
1966 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Swallow publish volume one of The Diary of Anaïs Nin; Nin becomes famous and begins a popular lecture tour that would last for years
1967 Volume 2 of the Diary is published
1968 Swallow publishes Novel of the Future
1969 Volume 3 of the Diary is published
1970 Nin is treated for cancer
1971 Volume 4 of the Diary is published
1974 Volume 5 of the Diary is published; Nin learns her cancer has returned
1975 Nin’s health deteriorates; remains in Los Angeles with Pole
1976 Volume 6 of the Diary is published; Nin is named Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times
1977 Nin dies at 73; Delta of Venus is published posthumously and becomes her best seller
More Titles from Sky Blue Press
MORE TITLES FROM SKY BLUE PRESS
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 by Anaïs Nin.
The Quotable Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin.
The Portable Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin, ed. Benjamin Franklin V.
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anaïs Nin.
House of Incest by Anaïs Nin.
The Winter of Artifice: 1939 Paris Edition by Anaïs Nin.
Under a Glass Bell by Anaïs Nin.
Stella by Anaïs Nin.
Ladders to Fire by Anaïs Nin.
Children of the Albatross by Anaïs Nin.
The Four-Chambered Heart by Anaïs Nin
A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin
Seduction of the Minotaur by Anaïs Nin
Cities of the Interior by Anaïs Nin.
Collages by Anaïs Nin.
The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
Anaïs Nin Character Dictionary and Index to Diary Excerpts by Benjamin Franklin V.