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Nin

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[nin] / nɪn /

noun

  1. Anaïs 1903–77, U.S. novelist and diarist.


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Like countless diarists before her, including Samuel Pepys, Anaïs Nin, Beatrix Potter and David Sedaris, the woman had kept a record of her days with ink and paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The BBC revealed last week that a key aide to Sir Keir, his principal private secretary Nin Pandit, was moving to a policy role in No 10.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

First, I think: I will take that full set of Anaïs Nin diaries, but then: I want to talk to whoever was giving them away.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

That was the push Chicago needed to write her 1975 autobiography, “Through the Flower”; Nin wrote the introduction.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Nin would have told her to find another way.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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