Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris β , and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an established author. Nin wrote journals prolifically from age eleven until her death.
Her journals, many of which were published during her lifetime, detail her private thoughts and personal relationships. Her journals also describe her marriages to Hugh Parker Guiler and Rupert Pole , in addition to her numerous affairs, including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and writer Henry Miller , both of whom profoundly influenced Nin and her writing. In addition to her journals, Nin wrote several novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and volumes of erotic literature.
Much of her work, including the collections of erotica Delta of Venus and Little Birds , was published posthumously amid renewed critical interest in her life and work. Nin spent her later life in Los Angeles , California, where she died of cervical cancer in She was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in Nin was raised a Roman Catholic [ 5 ] but left the church when she was 16 years old.
Nin dropped out of high school in at age sixteen, [ 7 ] and according to her diaries, Volume One, β , later began working as an artist's model.
After being in the United States for several years, Nin had forgotten how to speak Spanish, but retained her French and became fluent in English. On March 3, , in Havana , Cuba, Nin married her first husband, American Hugh Parker Guiler β , a banker and artist from Boston, later known as "Ian Hugo", when he became an experimental filmmaker in the late s.
