Anaïs Nin was a French-American writer best known for her extensive personal diaries, kept for over sixty years, which explored her inner life, relationships, and creativity with remarkable honesty. Born in France to Cuban and Danish-French parents, she later moved to the United States, where she wrote both diaries and fiction — and, for over a decade, was secretly married to two different men on opposite coasts at the same time. Her frank, poetic writing about a woman's inner experience influenced generations of writers who came after her.