Anaïs Nin

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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11 Banned Books Through Time

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8 of the Largest Empires in History

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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

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Anaïs Nin: Facts & Related Content

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Born	February 21, 1903 • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France
Died	January 14, 1977 (aged 73) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works	“A Spy in the House of Love” • “Cities of the Interior” • “D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study” • “Delta of Venus: Erotica” • “Four-Chambered Heart, The” • “Ladders to Fire” • “Solar Barque”

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Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman

American author

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

American author

Pearl Buck.

Pearl S. Buck

American author

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

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Louis Auchincloss

American author

Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard

American author

Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

American writer

Ann Petry

American author and journalist

Elizabeth Hardwick

American writer

Meridel Le Sueur

American author

Paul Horgan

American author

Alice Brown.

Alice Brown

American author

Albert Halper

American author

Anzia Yezierska

American author

Junot Díaz

Dominican-born American writer

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Herman Melville

Herman Melville

American author

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A Study of Writers

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