During her later years Anais Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA, in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). This edition includes a preface adapted from Anais Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Īnais Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics
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