(1903-1977) French-born 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 US 1940, becoming a prominent member of Greenwich Village literary society in New York.