Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they had failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet! In silence, in mystery, a human being was formed, was exploded, was struck by other passing bodies, was burned, was deserted. And then it was born in the molten love of the one who cared.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A CHRONOLOGY

1903 Anaïs Nin born in Neuilly, France

1913 Nin’s father abandons family

1914 Nin, her mother and two brothers come to New York; begins her diary, in French

1920 Begins to write her diary in English

1923 Marries Hugh P. Guiler, a banker, in Cuba

1924 Nin and Guiler move to Paris; Nin continues her diary and dabbles in fiction

1931 Meets controversial American novelist Henry Miller in Louveciennes, France

1932 Becomes Miller’s lover and is infatuated with his wife June; Edward Titus publishes Nin’s D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

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.