Essential Anais Nin

For many years the name Anaïs Nin was associated mostly with the avant-garde and the literary underground. During the liberated 1960s she became widely recognized as a daring and innovative artist. Her work, at once familiar and exotic, is today considered among the important achievements of twentieth-century literature.

This historic audio was recorded in 1972 at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center in New York City, where Anaïs Nin read excerpts from her diary, which she began in 1914 at the age of eleven. After her recital, she answered questions from her audience.