By Stella FenwickSlammed with scandal, cancelled and shamed, yet rising from the dead 90 years on: my comfort read, Anaïs Nin. I discovered Anaïs Nin from a Tumblr post when I was fifteen, which is the quintessential story you’ll hear from most Nin fans of this century. A friend recently asked me if I would live like Anaïs Nin if I could, the sensuous boheme writing with Henry Miller in Paris and owning her own printing press in New York. A friend recently asked me if I would live like Anaïs Nin if I could, the sensuous boheme writing with Henry Miller in Paris and owning her own printing press in New York. Image Credit: Elsa Dorfman via Wikimedia CommonsQuotes sources:Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume Seven 1966–1974https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/07/anais-nin-author-social-mediahttps://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/06/29/anais-nin/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anaies-nin-the-worlds-fir_b_4252799https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Thought_Daughter

Source: The Guardian January 14, 2026 17:55 UTC