Welcome to the Center for Autobiographic Studies (CAS)
Tristine Rainer, Ph.D. founded CAS as a not-for-profit educational organization in 1997. CAS is dedicated to promoting the knowledge, appreciation, creation and preservation of autobiographic works.
While CAS is no longer a charitable non-profit, this site is still a place where you can request helpful information about writing and/or publishing your autobiographic writing. We thank you for your interest and welcome your comments and participation.
Photo: Tristine in 1975 when living in Malibu
and co-teaching a class with Anais Nin
for International College
Apprenticed to Venus
As Director of CAS I want to tell you why I, who have nurtured so many other memoirs to publication, finally felt free to write my own memoir about my mentor, Anaïs Nin, and why it took me so long to address the subject and begin the book. What follows is the preface that I wrote for the opening of Apprenticed to Venus published July 11, 2017 by Arcade. It was cut from the final edit of the book for reasons of length. I put it here because I suspect I am not the only diarist to feel repulsed upon reading the outpourings of a younger self. Preface Hawaii, 2006 I don’t know ...
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About the Founder
Director of CAS Tristine Rainer tells why she finally wrote a memoir about her mentor, diarist Anaïs Nin.
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