A Literary Era Passing

I've long been fascinated by the life and writings of Anais Nin, who packed more living into her span of years that any ten other people put together. Like her most famous lover, Henry Miller, she was a complex mixture of admirable qualities and regrettable ones, all chronicled for posterity in her famous diaries. She spent the last stretch of her life as a bigamist, marrying a handsome, much-younger man named Rupert Pole in California while still married to her life-long partner Hugh Guilier in New York City. (She went back and forth between them every few weeks, and for many years neither man knew about the other.) Rupert, the last surviving member of the trio, and the executor of Nin's literary estate, died recently in the same California home he shared for many years with Anais. Other Nin fans out there may be interested in this obituary, published in the L.A. Times.