In Paris during the 1920’s & 30’s, she struggled to be taken seriously as a writer. But despite this, she never gave up or submitted to what was conventional for a woman to write. And after having moved to America in 1939, she eventually became known for her written works of fiction. The Delta of Venus being perhaps the most popular.
But what’s interesting about her fictional stories is that they came out more so as products of her actual life, from what she had written in her diaries.