Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) is an iconic literary figure and one of the most notable experimental writers of the twentieth century. As one of the first women to explore female erotica, Nin revealed the inner desires of her characters in a way that made her works a touchstone for later feminist writers. Swallow Press is the premier US publisher of books by and about Nin.

Laura Frost in an associate professor of literature at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of The Problem of Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents and Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism.