The Woman with One Hundred Faces
The Lives and Legacy of Anaïs Nin
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The Woman with One Hundred Faces
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Katherine Rowland
Born in 1903, Anaïs Nin led a bohemian life across Paris, New York, and Los Angeles and carved out bold new forms of confessional writing. Her published diaries and, later, her sexually explicit fiction captivated audiences with her commitment to the inner life. To her fans, she was a “cult heroine,” “an authentic surrealist,” “a legend.”
But that Anaïs, paragon of women’s truth-telling, was an invention—and after her death in 1977, her carefully crafted image collapsed. For thirty years, she had lived a double life organized around separate marriages, separate Christmas cards, separate prescription bottles, and separate social circles, each ignorant of the other. The “web of lies,” as she called it, was so immense that she needed a box of index cards to keep track.
Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen archival material, journalist Katherine Rowland reveals Anaïs’ splintered lives—obsequious daughter and incest survivor, faithful wife and reckless libertine, artist and benefactress—and the price she paid to keep them separate. Her diary was a place to craft these many identities in real time, and as such, Rowland argues, it was a visionary act of self-creation. Anaïs was not simply liar or truth-teller, but a woman forging a self that could contain all her hungers: to be rebel and lover, muse and creator in a time when women were given few models for such multiplicity.
Stylishly and humanely told, The Woman with One Hundred Faces is a portrait not of deceit but of devotion—to art, to imagination, and to the perilous task of becoming.
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“Anaïs Nin spent her life creating and re-creating herself; Katherine Rowland shows us the cost and courage behind that creation. 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
“Some figures need one biographer at most, but others, the truly intriguing subjects, should get a biographer every generation. In her timely new life of Anaïs Nin, Katherine Rowland brilliantly explores Nin’s complex bohemian world, from LA to Greenwich Village to Provincetown, and, even more improbably, explores the unique world inside Nin’s head. She has not demystified Nin, which would be impossible, but has given us a new way of approaching Nin’s mystery. And that’s even better.”—Mark Oppenheimer, author of Judy Blume: A Life
“In Katherine Rowland’s landmark biography, we meet the real Anaïs Nin—an ambitious writer and pioneering artist, whose brilliance has long been obscured by scandal and lies. Enter Rowland, whose meticulous research and clear-eyed assessment overturn these old calumnies. In this gorgeously written book, she makes the case for Nin’s significance as a writer, while also telling the compelling story of a young woman coming of age. Nin becomes one of the most transcendent artists of her era but also one of the most maligned. We owe Rowland a debt of gratitude for retelling Nin’s story.”—Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
“This clear-eyed, intelligent look at writer and diarist Anaïs Nin is a portrait of an enigma. Katherine Rowland’s excellent biography goes a long way toward helping us understand this remarkable, talented woman. Arguing for a ‘redemptive’ reading of Nin, Rowland insists that we look beyond the constraints on women in Nin’s day—and their consequences—to see how Nin was able to transcend them through her art.”—Mary V. Dearborn, author of Carson McCullers: A Lif
“Some figures need one biographer at most, but others, the truly intriguing subjects, should get a biographer every generation. In her timely new life of Anaïs Nin, Katherine Rowland brilliantly explores Nin’s complex bohemian world, from LA to Greenwich Village to Provincetown, and, even more improbably, explores the unique world inside Nin’s head. She has not demystified Nin, which would be impossible, but has given us a new way of approaching Nin’s mystery. And that’s even better.”—Mark Oppenheimer, author of Judy Blume: A Life
“In Katherine Rowland’s landmark biography, we meet the real Anaïs Nin—an ambitious writer and pioneering artist, whose brilliance has long been obscured by scandal and lies. Enter Rowland, whose meticulous research and clear-eyed assessment overturn these old calumnies. In this gorgeously written book, she makes the case for Nin’s significance as a writer, while also telling the compelling story of a young woman coming of age. Nin becomes one of the most transcendent artists of her era but also one of the most maligned. We owe Rowland a debt of gratitude for retelling Nin’s story.”—Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
“This clear-eyed, intelligent look at writer and diarist Anaïs Nin is a portrait of an enigma. Katherine Rowland’s excellent biography goes a long way toward helping us understand this remarkable, talented woman. Arguing for a ‘redemptive’ reading of Nin, Rowland insists that we look beyond the constraints on women in Nin’s day—and their consequences—to see how Nin was able to transcend them through her art.”—Mary V. Dearborn, author of Carson McCullers: A Lif
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