Anais Nin

About the Book

"For readers unfamiliar with her subject, Maryanne Raphael's biography, Anais Nin, The Voyage Within, is a sensitive, uncomplicated introduction to the life and work of one of the 20th century's most quintessentially feminine artists. For Nin devotees, the biography is a refresher course taking us back through the vast material of the Diaries and novels that enchanted and inspired our love.

Raphael accepts Nin entirely on her own terms. Thanks to a warm, personal relationship with Rupert Pole, Nin's surviving husband and executor of her estate, Raphael opens up some of the mystery that has hitherto surrounded Nin's relationship with her husbands-an aspect of Nin's life that was never explicitly described in the original Diaries. The result is a multi-dimensional portrait in which Nin's two selves, artist and woman are fully integrated. Nin the woman consciously chooses to realize female desire, give form to female imagination, always loving as she remains completely focused on birthing a new unabashedly feminine literature. Thank you, Maryanne!"
-Dolores Brandon, Author of IN THE SHADOW OF MADNESS, A Memoir

About the Author

Maryanne Raphael was born in Waverly, Ohio, the oldest of ten children. She lived in Haiti, Morocco, France, Brazil, Mexico and now lives in Carlsbad Ca. She taught at the University of Hawaii and at the New School in New York where she studied novel writing with Marguerite Young.

Maryanne knew Anais for the last five years of Nin?s life. Ohio State University Libraries published her interview with Anais. Her essay, ?Who is Anais?, appeared in Anais, A Book of Mirrors.

She is author of Mother Teresa, Called to Love, The Man Who Loved Funerals, Along Came A Spider, A Personal Look at Madness, co-author of Alexandria (with Patricia Walden), Runaways (with Jenifer Wolf), published in Authors Guild/BackinPrint with iUniverse (Preface by Anais Nin).