Meet Anaïs Nin, one of the first female erotica novelists. Born in France in 1903, she started journaling at age 11 and didn’t stop until shortly before her death in 1977. (Can you imagine how many notebooks that would be?) Along with her journals, she published a number of books and hobnobbed with the best in the bohemian heydays of Paris. In the 1940s, she and her friends began to write erotica for $1 a page as commissioned by an anonymous collector. In the early 70s, she finally allowed her short stories to be published as Death of Venus and Little Birds. I love me some erotica, so I can’t wait to get my hands on this pioneer’s work.

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