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Sarah Maza

Sarah Maza is Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she directs the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. Her most recent books are Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris (2011) and an introduction to the field of history for the classroom, Thinking About History (2017). icon

Swinging: The Double Life of Anaïs Nin

By Sarah Maza

In 1937, Henry Miller predicted that the autobiographical oeuvre of Anaïs Nin would one day “take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius ...

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