The Woman with One Hundred Faces

In this intimate and sensitive biography, Rowland moves beyond Nin’s sexual legend and traumas to recover a radical artist whose explorations of desire, consciousness, freedom, and identity transformed the possibilities of autobiography, and anticipated questions of our own age. Richly researched and thrillingly paced, this is a fresh and compelling reassessment of a bold, gifted, and haunted woman who blurred the line between life and art, and who refused to live—or write—by anyone else’s rules. – Heather Clark, author of * Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath *
In Katherine Rowland’s landmark biography, we meet the real Anaïs Nin … meticulous research and clear-eyed assessment … We owe Rowland a debt of gratitude for re-telling Nin’s story – Charlotte Gordon, author of * Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley *

Katherine Rowland is the author of The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution (Seal Press, 2020), which was covered by O, the Oprah Magazine, NPR, Slate, Jezebel, Salon, the Guardian, TIME, NBC, LitHub and dozens of podcasts. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, her feature writing has also appeared in Outside, Psychology Today, the Baffler, Aeon and the Financial Times. Formerly, she was executive director and publisher of Guernica and the host and executive journalist of the podcast Seeking.

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