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1st Edition. Unexpurgated.
All content unless otherwise stated, copyright © 2013 The Anaïs Nin Trust (anaisnintrust.com)
This edition published by arrangement with Sky Blue Press.
Introduction copyright © 2013 Kim Krizan
Preface copyright © 2013 Paul Herron

Excerpts from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Three, 1939–1944 (copyright © 1969 by Anaïs Nin and renewed by Rupert Pole and Gunther Stuhlmann) and The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Four, 1944–1947 (copyright © 1971 by Anaïs Nin and renewed by Rupert Pole and Gunther Stuhlmann) reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Cover photo:                          courtesy of The Anaïs Nin Trust; Deigh-Nevin
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All photographs copyright © The Anaïs Nin Trust, with the following exceptions:
    Edward Graeffe:                           James Abresch, photographer
    Valentina Orlikova:                     Soviet Russia Today (April 1943)
    Anaïs Nin in Provincetown:      José Alemany, photographer
    Anaïs Nin in action coat:           Soichi Sunami, photographer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nin, Anaïs, 1903–1977.
Mirages : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1939–1947 / [Anaïs Nin] ; preface by Paul Herron ; introduction by Kim Krizan ; edited by Paul Herron.
    pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8040-1146-4 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8040-4057-0 (electronic)
1. Nin, Anaïs, 1903–1977. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. I. Herron, Paul, editor. II. Title.
PS3527.I865Z46 2013
818’.5209—dc23
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