“The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.”

— Anaïs Nin , book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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