"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and moulding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
A well-fitting quote I thought...
Anaïs Nin, born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell in Neuilly, France, to the Cuban composer Joaquin Nin and French-Danish singer Rosa Culmell (remember, this is 1903!). When she was eleven, her parents divorced and her mother moved with Anaïs and her two brothers from Barcelona to New York. This is also the time that Anaïs began to write her journals for which she is widely known. In 1923, she married Hugo Guiler and moved to Paris in 1924. Hugo worked for an international bank, allowing Anaïs to live on and off in a studio to herself or even in a houseboat, pursuing her interest in writing. They additionally supported various avant-garde artists which became close friends and sometimes lovers to Anaïs. Her most remarkable affair is with Henry Miller, who strongly influenced her both as a woman and author. Anaïs Nin wrote a number of novels and prose poems in surrealistic style but she is probably best remembered for her diaries. They cover several decades and provide a deep insight into her personal life and relationships. She was also one of the first female writer to explore fully the range of erotic writing and certainly the first woman in Europe to write erotica. The rumor that Anaïs was bisexual was given extra speculation by Philip Kaufmann's film Henry & June. In 1939, Hugo and Anaïs moved back to NY, when American citizens were urged to leave Europe due to the upcoming war. Eight years later she began a relationship with Rupert Pole, sixteen years her junior, dividing her live between NY/Hugo and Los Angeles, where Rupert lived. In 1955, she moved permanently to Los Angeles to live with Rupert until she died of cancer in 1977.
Though she was a popular lecturer during the feminist movement in the 1960s, she refused to be connected to its political aims. Only late, in 1973, she received an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art and in 1974 was she elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Anaïs Nin, born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell in Neuilly, France, to the Cuban composer Joaquin Nin and French-Danish singer Rosa Culmell (remember, this is 1903!). When she was eleven, her parents divorced and her mother moved with Anaïs and her two brothers from Barcelona to New York. This is also the time that Anaïs began to write her journals for which she is widely known. In 1923, she married Hugo Guiler and moved to Paris in 1924. Hugo worked for an international bank, allowing Anaïs to live on and off in a studio to herself or even in a houseboat, pursuing her interest in writing. They additionally supported various avant-garde artists which became close friends and sometimes lovers to Anaïs. Her most remarkable affair is with Henry Miller, who strongly influenced her both as a woman and author. Anaïs Nin wrote a number of novels and prose poems in surrealistic style but she is probably best remembered for her diaries. They cover several decades and provide a deep insight into her personal life and relationships. She was also one of the first female writer to explore fully the range of erotic writing and certainly the first woman in Europe to write erotica. The rumor that Anaïs was bisexual was given extra speculation by Philip Kaufmann's film Henry & June. In 1939, Hugo and Anaïs moved back to NY, when American citizens were urged to leave Europe due to the upcoming war. Eight years later she began a relationship with Rupert Pole, sixteen years her junior, dividing her live between NY/Hugo and Los Angeles, where Rupert lived. In 1955, she moved permanently to Los Angeles to live with Rupert until she died of cancer in 1977.
Though she was a popular lecturer during the feminist movement in the 1960s, she refused to be connected to its political aims. Only late, in 1973, she received an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art and in 1974 was she elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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