They repeatedly recast her as a promiscuous vixen who drives unsuspecting narrators and side characters insane with desire. Miller and Nin used June’s appearance, personality, and life experiences as material for books so sexually explicit that they sent shock waves through the literary world. She was a rough-draft heroine that both authors developed as they pleased. June’s role in this complicated threesome was always clear.
And June was compelled to accept that Nin, though generous in her gift-giving, was going to funnel most of her wealthy husband’s resources into Miller’s writing career rather than June’s artistic enterprises.
Miller tolerated Nin and June’s budding flirtatious relationship as he’d tolerated June’s amorous adventures with other women. Nin, though married to the banker Hugh Guiler, had begun an intense affair and intellectual collaboration with Henry Miller in the early 1930s. Sharing would become the theme of the trio’s complex bohemian existence together.
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