Anais Nin: The Voyage Within

by Maryanne Raphael

For readers unfamiliar with her subject, Maryanne Raphael's biography, Anais Nin, The Voyage Within, is a sensitive, uncomplicated introduction to the life and work of one of the 20th century's most quintessentially feminine artists. For Nin devotees, the biography is a refresher course taking us back through the vast material of the Diaries and novels that enchanted and inspired our love.Raphael accepts Nin entirely on her own terms. Thanks to a warm, personal relationship with Rupert Pole, Nin's surviving husband and executor of her estate, Raphael opens up some of the mystery that has hitherto surrounded Nin's relationship with her husbands-an aspect of Nin's life that was never explicitly described in the original Diaries. The result is a multi-dimensional portrait in which Nin's two selves, artist and woman are fully integrated. Nin the woman consciously chooses to realize female desire, give form to female imagination, always loving as she remains completely focused on birthing a new unabashedly feminine literature. Thank you, Maryanne! -Dolores Brandon, Author of IN THE SHADOW OF MADNESS, A Memoir

230 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Maryanne received her first rejection from St. Anthony's Messenger when she was five years old. Now after working with Mother Teresa in Mexico, California, New York, India and South Africa St. Anthony's Messenger is publishing What Mother Teresa Taught Me. With Lennox Raphael she wrote Garden of Hope. Her other books are Runaways, (with Jeni Wolf) reprinted by Authors Guild in their back in print books. The Man Who Loved Funerals, A Personal Look at Madness, Alexandria (with Patricia Walden)Anais Nin, The Voyage Within and How to Survive as a Free lance Writer.
Planning Book Tours in Ohio, California, New York City and Hawaii where she has lived and has many friends and family members."

Reviews

[Maryanne Raphael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anais Nin was a friend of mine. I interviewed her in New York at Hugo's apartment and we became close friends. She wrote the introduction for my book Runaways, America's Lost Youth (coauthor Jenifer Wolf.) Of course Anais does not need a biography. She wrote her own in the diaries but I wanted to introduce people to her so I wrote Anais Nin, The Voyage Within.