WRITER

Anaïs Nin

1903 - 1977

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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell ( AN-eye-EESS NEEN; French: [ana.is nin]; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anaïs Nin has received more than 3,864,529 page views. Her biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Anaïs Nin is the 508th most popular writer (down from 453rd in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from France (down from 533rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Writer.

Anaïs Nin was a writer and diarist who was born in France and later moved to the United States. She is most famous for her diaries, which she wrote for over 30 years.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anaïs Nin ranks 508 out of 7,302. Before her are Juan Ramón Jiménez, Thomas Paine, Baldassare Castiglione, Philip Larkin, Anthony Burgess, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. After her are Robert A. Heinlein, Statius, Alfred Jarry, Camille Flammarion, Gabriele Amorth, and Isaac Babel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Anaïs Nin ranks 20. Before her are Marguerite Yourcenar, Vladimir Horowitz, Adolf Butenandt, Andrey Kolmogorov, Kane Tanaka, and Jan Tinbergen. After her are Mustafa Barzani, Galeazzo Ciano, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Hugo Theorell, Hans Jonas, and Nikolai Podgorny. Among people deceased in 1977, Anaïs Nin ranks 17. Before her are Roberto Rossellini, Jacques Prévert, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Makarios III, Alexey Stakhanov, and Kurt Schuschnigg. After her are Ernst Bloch, Joan Crawford, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Clarice Lispector, Andreas Baader, and Archibald Hill.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anaïs Nin ranks 596 out of 6,770. Before her are Roger Garaudy (1913), Margaret of Anjou (1430), Françoise Hardy (1944), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Lazare Carnot (1753). After her are Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Alain Resnais (1922), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753), Alfred Jarry (1873), and Jacques Charles (1763).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Anaïs Nin ranks 90. Before her are Louise de La Vallière (1644), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Henri Barbusse (1873), and Gérard de Nerval (1808). After her are Alfred Jarry (1873), Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Paul Claudel (1868), and Gaston Leroux (1868).

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