| 1903 |
Anaïs Nin is born in Neuilly, France to the Spanish/Cuban pianist and composer Joaquín Nin y Castellanos and French/Danish/Cuban Rosa Culmell, a singer from a wealthy family |
| 1905 |
Brother Thorvald is born in Havana |
| 1908 |
Second brother Joaquín is born in Berlin |
| 1912 |
Nearly dies from burst appendix in Brussels |
| 1913 |
Nin’s father abandons his family for a young lover; Nin’s mother Rosa and the children stay with Joaquín Sr.’s parents in Barcelona |
| 1914 |
Nin, her mother and two brothers come to New York; Nin begins her diary, in French |
| 1919 |
Nin leaves school at the end of her junior year; becomes increasingly skeptical of Catholicism |
| 1920 |
Begins to write her diary in English |
| 1922 |
Becomes an artists’ model to help with the family income |
| 1923 |
Marries Hugh P. Guiler, a banker, in Cuba |
| 1924 |
Nin and Guiler move to Paris where he takes a position with the Paris branch of his New York bank; Nin continues her diary and dabbles in fiction |
| 1927 |
Begins Spanish dance lessons with Paco Miralles |
| 1929 |
Has an unconsummated affair with American author and scholar John Erskine, which haunts her for years |
| 1930 |
Moves from a lavish Paris apartment to a more economical house in Louveciennes, a suburb of Paris |
| 1931 |
Meets controversial American novelist Henry Miller in Louveciennes |
| 1932 |
Becomes Miller’s lover and is infatuated with his wife June; Edward Titus publishes Nin’s first book, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study; Nin begins psychotherapy with René Allendy |
| 1933 |
Reunites with her father and begins an incestuous relationship with him in the south of France, which would last for several months; begins psychoanalysis with Otto Rank |
| 1934 |
Becomes Rank’s lover; has a horrific late-term abortion; comes to New York to help Rank psychoanalyze patients; Miller secretly comes with her |
| 1935 |
Moves from Louveciennes to Paris with Guiler |
| 1936 |
Self-publishes The House of Incest (Siana Editions); meets Peruvian communist Gonzalo Moré and begins a sexual relationship with him; rents a houseboat on the Seine for their trysts |
| 1937 |
Meets Lawrence Durrell; she, Miller and Durrell begin planning a series of books |
| 1939 |
Obelisk Press prints Nin’s The Winter of Artifice; Nin and Guiler fly to New York to avoid oncoming war |
| 1940 |
Nin reunites with her two lovers, Miller and Moré, in New York; begins an affair with the young artist John Dudley |
| 1941 |
Meets the Viennese singer Edward Graeffe (Chinchilito) in Provincetown and begins a long-lasting affair with him |
| 1942 |
Self-publishes the expurgated version of Winter of Artifice (Gemor Press); breaks with Miller; begins psychoanalysis with Martha Jaeger |
| 1943 |
Meets Haitian sculptor Albert Mangones and has a brief affair with him |
| 1944 |
Self-publishes Under a Glass Bell (Gemor Press) |
| 1945 |
Meets seventeen-year-old William Pinckard and begins an affair with him; self-publishes This Hunger (Gemor Press); meets Gore Vidal; begins psychoanalysis with Clement Staff; begins a brief affair with critic Edmund Wilson |
| 1946 |
Falls in love with Vidal; with his help, E. P. Dutton publishes Nin’s Ladders to Fire; briefly resumes affair with Mangones |
| 1947 |
Dutton publishes Children of the Albatross; meets Rupert Pole; breaks with Moré |