Rupert Pole (February 18, 1919 – July 15, 2006) was an American actor and the husband of author Anaïs Nin, as well as her literary executor.
[citation needed] Pole received a degree in forestry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and joined the U.S. Forest Service.
[citation needed] Nin remained married to Guiler, citing his decades of financial support, but spent her final years with Pole.
She and Pole lived in a small house in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood that Pole had built with money saved from his job as forest ranger and later as a science teacher at Thomas Starr King Junior High School in Los Angeles.
"[1] As Nin's literary executor, Pole was responsible for supervising the preparation of new posthumous editions of her works for publication from 1986 to 1996, restoring erotic content that had been made less explicit in the versions published while she lived.
On Guiler's death in 1985, Pole scattered his ashes in the same place as Nin's, a cove on the coast at Santa Monica.
For his obituary in the New York Times Nin's biographer, Deirdre Bair, told a reporter: "He was sort of a great cipher.