Timeline

• 1903 Anaïs Nin is born in France
• 1914 Nin's mother, and Anaïs, and her two brothers emigrate to the United States
• 1923 Marries Hugh Guiler in Havana
• 1931 The period in her life recorded in Nin’s published diaries begins.
• 1933 Nin sleeps with her father (or does she?) and sees Otto Rank
• 1936 The House of Incest published -- a prose poem/novel
• 1939 Winter of Artifice published and Nin leaves Paris
• 1940s Nin in the U.S. and writes erotica; much of it isn’t published till after her death
• 1966/7 First diary of seven from the years 1931-1966 is published
• 1977 Nin dies