1903-1977. US novelist and diarist. Her
extensive and impressionistic diaries,
published 1966-76, reflect her interest in
dreams, which along with psychoanalysis are
recurring themes of her gently erotic novels
(such as House of Incest 1936 and A Spy in
the House of Love 1954). Born in Paris, she
started out as a model and dancer, but later
took up the study of psychoanalysis. She
emigrated to the USA in 1940, becoming a
prominent member of Greenwich Village
literary society in New York.