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Died. Anaïs Nin, 73, precocious writer whose four-volume Diary dissected the female psyche; in Los Angeles. Born in Paris to musician parents, Nin began her diary at age eleven when her father deserted the family. She later wrote about artistic life in the '30s and '40s, penning vivid portraits of such novelists as Lawrence Durrell, Gore Vidal and her longtime friend Henry Miller...
Miller's friend Anais Nin took the measure of his self-expression through lust and literature more coolly and hit home instantly...
Mailer readily admits that of all Miller's acquaintances, Nin pierced his psyche most straightforwardly, yet he persists in reading her judgments through the aperture of his biases. The writer foundering in the brothers and streets of Paris during the '30s was more gullible. But self-consciousness wasn't in his nature, and when he let it impinge on his novels, Nin's analysis paralyzed the frowzy romanticism of his vision as an entomologist pins the wings of a moth. Mailer is right in pointing out that Miller was "without philosophy--he had only sentiments, at their best likely...