Johnson (1881–1960), a wealthy American businessman from Ardmore, Oklahoma, who had discovered the Healdton Oil Pool. His identity has since been revealed as Roy M. 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. The collection of short stories that makes up this anthology was written during the 1940s for a private client known simply as "Collector". In 1994 a film inspired by the book was directed by Zalman King. 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.
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