Little Birds is Anaïs Nin's second published work of erotica, which appeared in 1979 two years after her death,[1] but was apparently written in the early 1940s when she was part of a group "writing pornography for a dollar a day.

The sexual topics covered are quite varied, ranging from pedophilia to lesbianism, but linked by an interest in female subjectivity[3] and in the dialectic of discourse and intercourse.

[6] The contents of the book include a "Preface" and the thirteen short stories: "Little Birds", "The Woman on the Dune", "Lina", "Two Sisters", "Sirocco", "The Maja", "A Model", "The Queen", "Hilda and Rango", "The Chanchiquito", "Saffron", "Mandra", and "Runaway".

While writing her erotica, and organising that of her fellow writers such as George Barker, Nin referred to herself jokingly as the "madam of this snobbish literary house of prostitution" for a client who examined sexual activity "to the exclusion of aspects which are the fuel that ignites it.

I finally decided to release the erotica for publication because it shows the beginning efforts of a woman in a world that had been the domain of men.