spent her childhood in various
parts of Europe until, when she was eleven, her father, Spanish composer Joaquin Nin,
abandoned his family
same year, her French-Danish mother,
Rosa Culmell, took Anais and her two sons to New York.
began to write
her journals
In 1923 she married Hugo Guiler
The couple moved to Paris in 1924
supported various avant-garde artists, among them
Henry Miller with whom Anais started an affair and exchanged hundreds of letters
back to New York just before the outbreak of World War II
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
-Anais Nin
Henry on March 4, 1932
Three minutes after you have gone. No, I can't restrain it. I tell you what you already know - I love you.
clipped from: www.anais-nin.de 
