Nin, Anaïs (1903–1977)

French-born US novelist and diarist. Her extensive and impressionistic diaries, published 1966–76, reflect her interest in dreams, which along with psychoanalysis are recurring themes of her gently erotic novels (such as House of Incest (1936) and A Spy in the House of Love (1954)). Her correspondence with the US writer Henry Miller was published in 1985.

Born in Paris of a Catalan father and a Danish mother, she worked as a model and dancer, but later took up the study of psychoanalysis. She emigrated to the USA 1940, becoming a prominent member of Greenwich Village literary society in New York. She also worked in Paris and Los Angeles.

A biography by Deirdre Bair was published in 1996.