Anaïs Nin

Photograph of Anaïs Nin (French-Cuban, 1903-1977). Princeton University Library.

In my days, I was notorious, scandalous, loved, admired, hated and always the subject of gossip. And at the beginning of the 20th Century, people really liked to gossip.

But did I care? Of course not!

I’m Anaïs Nin, Cuban by birth, but a woman of the world. Yet I’m not defined by what people say of me. I’m a free-thinking, free-spirited woman, one who does what she wants and isn’t afraid of the consequences. I’m a novelist and essayist and my books were world-famous.

I fell in love with many men, married one, and while married, thought ‘what the hell’ and married another…..and we all lived together in blissful harmonious bigamy.

Do I care what you think of me? No, of course not!