Anaïs Nin

RW met Anaïs Nin in Paris by Nin's own request.

After her relationship with Stuart Edmonds ended, AK developed a large and close circle of friends who doted on her. Her friends were almost exclusively homosexual men, and she developed a reputation for not getting...

In Connecticut she attended a party to celebrate the recent publication of Marguerite Young 's novel Miss MacIntosh, my darling. Commenting on this nearly two-thousand-page tome, AQ noted if Edith Sitwell had written a...

The Christian Science Monitor review praised the collection both for universality and for specificity of description.Jane Cooper found it a wonderful book, in which the grief opens bottomlessly through the violence and the...

Anaïs Nin , in The Novel of the Future, pronounced AK 's Asylum Piece to be a classic equal to the work of Kafka .

As a member of staff at Ms. magazine (from December 1974) AW exerted an influence on contemporary writing not only through the writers she chose to publish but through her own contributions to the magazine...

This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...