OUR MISSION

The Anaïs Nin Foundation promotes the appreciation of Anaïs Nin, a 20th century writer famous for her groundbreaking diary. Nin’s writing, driven by self-analysis, the arts, love, and travel, was ahead of its time and is more relevant than ever.  We are a non-profit organization that hosts events and periodically releases previously unseen material from Nin's life and vast body of work.

We’re thrilled that Anaïs Nin continues to inspire so many artists, writers, and creative projects around the world. If you’d like to use any images or quotes from Nin’s work, or if you’re interested in collaborating with the Foundation on Nin-related events, publications, or other creative endeavors, we’d love to hear from you. Please reach out to us with any questions about rights usage or how to get involved.

The art of Anais Nin cuts across the traditional literary categories. She combines poetic lyricism with an extended fable, blurring the distinction between poetry and prose. Her writings are presented to us both as separate, self-contained compositions and as part of a continuous work-in-progress; moreover they hover in that contemporary no-man’s land between autobiography and fiction.
-Philip K. Jason

While many writers see what is before their eyes, Anais Nin looks into the heart of what confronts her, dissolving barriers, allowing us to participate, through the alchemy of her words, into the depths of the things which surround us and in whose shallows most lives are spent.
-Wayne McEvilly