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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 3,506,077 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Anaïs Nin is the 454th most popular writer (up from 479th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from France (up from 545th in 2019) and the 77th 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 454 out of 5,755. Before her are Livius Andronicus, Richard Bach, Thomas Paine, John Galsworthy, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Athenaeus. After her are Salman Rushdie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, William of Rubruck, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, and Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Anaïs Nin ranks 20. Before her are Fernandel, Galeazzo Ciano, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rudolf Abel, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Yasujirō Ozu. After her are Adolf Butenandt, C. F. Powell, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Nikolai Podgorny, Karl Hanke, and Alec Douglas-Home. Among people deceased in 1977, Anaïs Nin ranks 15. Before her are Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Jacques Prévert, René Goscinny, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Joan Crawford, and Makarios III. After her are Alexey Stakhanov, Kurt Schuschnigg, Ernst Bloch, Francis Gary Powers, Howard Hawks, and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anaïs Nin ranks 533 out of 6,011. Before her are Auguste de Marmont (1774), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), John Vianney (1786), Caroline Bonaparte (1782), and Eugène Boudin (1824). After her are Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), William of Rubruck (1220), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Rashi (1040), William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071), and Joseph Black (1728).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Anaïs Nin ranks 77. Before her are Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Louis Aragon (1897), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Patrick Modiano (1945), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), and Ève Curie (1904). After her are William of Rubruck (1220), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), René Guénon (1886), Jacques Hébert (1757), and Boris Vian (1920).

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