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The Woman with One Hundred Faces
  • Published: 12 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837315192
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 544
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The Woman with One Hundred Faces

The Lives and Legacy of Anaïs Nin

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A new biography of the celebrated, notorious author of erotic classics including Delta of Venus, re-examining her work and legacy

Who was Anaïs Nin? To some, she was a towering literary figure, whose late-life fame following the publication of her diaries changed the reading habits of a generation. To others, she was a failed novelist, better known for her affair with Henry Miller. Readers might know her best for her dollar-a-page erotica, never intended for publication; or celebrate her for her journals and avant-garde fiction, powerful statements of a woman's right to artistry. Achieving a cult following in the last decade of her life, her reputation took a shocking posthumous knock when she was revealed to be a bigamist, a fantasist and a compulsive liar, who engaged in an incestuous affair with her father.

Katherine Rowland's new biography is an unflinching, empathetic account of Nin's life, and a reckoning with her wild legacy. From this book emerges a figure who was a lover, a tyrant, an exploiter, a victim, but above all things, a writer.
  • Published: 12 January 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837315192
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 544
Categories:

About the author

Katherine Rowland

Katherine Rowland is the author of The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution (Seal Press, 2020), which was covered by O, the Oprah Magazine, NPR, Slate, Jezebel, Salon, the Guardian, TIME, NBC, LitHub and dozens of podcasts. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, her feature writing has also appeared in Outside, Psychology Today, the Baffler, Aeon and the Financial Times. Formerly, she was executive director and publisher of Guernica and the host and executive journalist of the podcast Seeking.
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Praise for The Woman with One Hundred Faces

In this intimate and sensitive biography, Rowland moves beyond Nin’s sexual legend and traumas to recover a radical artist whose explorations of desire, consciousness, freedom, and identity transformed the possibilities of autobiography, and anticipated questions of our own age. Richly researched and thrillingly paced, this is a fresh and compelling reassessment of a bold, gifted, and haunted woman who blurred the line between life and art, and who refused to live—or write—by anyone else’s rules.

Heather Clark, author of, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

In Katherine Rowland’s landmark biography, we meet the real Anaïs Nin ... meticulous research and clear-eyed assessment ... We owe Rowland a debt of gratitude for re-telling Nin’s story

Charlotte Gordon, author of, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley