Journals: 1947-55

During the period covered by this volume Anais Nin is once again on the move. She lives for a short time in San Francisco, then settles near Los Angeles, returning at intervals to what she calls the toxic life of New York. Warned that Paris has changed she revisits apprehensively. Wherever she goes she attracts creative people - writer, artists, composers, film-makers. These are also years of crisis - her parents die, she undergoes a major operation and her work is a failure with the critics.