Delta of Venus - Wikipedia Delta of Venus For the film adaptation, see Delta of Venus ( film ) This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. ( October 2013 ) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine - translated version of the German article. Google 's machine translation is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy - pasting machine - translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low - quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign - language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary ( using German ) : Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ( ( : de : Exact name of German article ) ) ; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template ( ( Translated de Das Delta der Venus ) ) to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia : Translation. Delta of Venus First edition cover art Author Anaïs Nin Cover artist Milton Glaser Richard Merkin ( photo ) Country United States Language English Genre Short stories, erotica Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publication date 1977 Media type Print ( hardback & paperback ) Pages 250 pp ( first edition ) ISBN 0 - 15 - 124656 - 4 Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 -- though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. In 1994 a film inspired by the book was directed by Zalman King. Contents 1 Background 2 Short stories 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading Background The collection of short stories that makes up this anthology was written during the 1940s for a private client known simply as `` Collector ''. This `` Collector '' commissioned Nin, along with other now well - known writers ( including Henry Miller and the poet George Barker ), to produce erotic fiction for his private consumption. His identity has since been revealed as Roy M. Johnson of Healdton Oil, Oklahoma. Despite being told to leave poetic language aside and concentrate on graphic, sexually explicit scenarios, Nin was able to give these stories a literary flourish and a layer of images and ideas beyond the pornographic. In her Diary ( Oct. 1941 ), she jokingly referred to herself as `` the madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution, from which vulgarity was excluded ''. While using the Kama Sutra and other writings such as those of Krafft - Ebing as models, Nin was very conscious that the languages of male and female sexuality were distinct. Although at times she scorned her erotica, and feared for their impact on her literary reputation, they have subsequently been seen by sex - positive feminists as pioneering work. Short stories The short stories which Delta of Venus anthologizes are these : The Hungarian Adventurer Mathilde The Boarding School The Ring Mallorca Artists and Models Lilith Marianne The Veiled Woman Elena The Basque and Bijou Pierre Manuel Linda Marcel The book, unlike the later Little Birds, contains no poetry as such. Its introductory preface contains entries from the Diary that Nin kept, which expressed her hope that its unexpurgated version would one day be published. See also D.H. Lawrence Émile Zola George Sand Little Birds Mons pubis The Diary of Anaïs Nin References Jump up ^ I. Ousby, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English ( 1995 ) p. 683 Jump up ^ Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus & Little Birds ( 1996 ), pp. 13 -- 16 Jump up ^ Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus & Little Birds ( 1996 ), pp. 13 -- 16 Jump up ^ Paul Herron, Anaïs Nin : A Book of Mirrors ( Sky Blue Press, 1996 ), p. 427 Jump up ^ * Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus & Little Birds ( 1996 ), p. 16 Jump up ^ Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus & Little Birds ( 1996 ), pp. 15 & 19 Jump up ^ Anne T. Salvatore, Anaïs Nin 's Narratives, University Press of Florida ( 2001 ) ISBN 0 - 8130 - 2113 - 8, p. 17 Jump up ^ Susie Bright, Totally Heterotica ( 1995 ), p. 2 Further reading Elizabeth Kowaleski - Wallace, Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, Taylor & Francis, 1997, ISBN 0 - 8153 - 0824 - 8, p. 190 Andrew Gibson, Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel : from Leavis to Levinas, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0 - 415 - 19895 - X, p. 177 Noël Riley Fitch, Anaïs : The Erotic Life of Anaïs Nin ( Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1993 ) ISBN 0 - 316 - 28428 - 9 Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, Penguin Books, 2008 ISBN 978 - 0141 - 03730 - 1 Anaïs Nin Novels House of Incest ( 1936 ) Winter of Artifice ( 1939 ) Cities of the Interior Ladders to Fire Children of the Albatross The Four - Chambered Heart A Spy in the House of Love Seduction of the Minotaur Collages ( 1964 ) Journals The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1978 -- 85 ) The Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1966 -- 77 ) Henry and June : From a Journal of Love : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin ( 1986 ) A Literate Passion : Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller ( 1987 ) Incest : From a Journal of Love ( 1992 ) Fire : From a Journal of Love ( 1995 ) Nearer the Moon : From A Journal of Love ( 1996 ) Mirages : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939 - 1947 ( 2013 ) Trapeze : The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947 -- 1955 ( 2017 ) Short stories Under a Glass Bell ( 1944 ) Waste of Timelessness : And Other Early Stories ( 1977 ) Delta of Venus ( 1977 ) Little Birds ( 1979 ) Auletris ( 2016 ) Non-fiction D.H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study ( 1932 ) The Novel of the Future ( 1968 ) In Favor of the Sensitive Man ( 1976 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Delta_of_Venus&oldid=804148335 '' Categories : 1977 short story collections Books adapted into films Books published posthumously Erotic short stories Short story collections by Anaïs Nin Hidden categories : Articles to be expanded from October 2013 All articles to be expanded Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia Pages to import images to Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Հայերեն Italiano Português Română Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 7 October 2017, at 02 : 09. About Wikipedia

Question: who is the author of delta of venus
Answer: Anaïs Nin