LA Times: The Ranger Who Told All About Anais Nin's Wild Life

“The Ranger Who Told All About Anais Nin’s Wild Life”

The story goes that their love affair began the moment they laid eyes on one another, in the elevator of a swank Manhattan apartment building in 1947. A few weeks later, the exotic-looking writer and the strapping young actor were driving to California on an adventure that would eventually lead to marriage.

There was one problem: Anais Nin, the prolific diarist who would become a feminist heroine, already was married. Rupert Pole, the actor who left New York to become a forest ranger — and eventually guardian of one of literature’s most labyrinthine legacies — spent years pretending not to care that his wife was a bigamist.