Vladimir Nabokov, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-72726-2. In this novel, first published in 1959, a man plumbs the life of the writer who was his half brother.

Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel, ... Here‘s what you need to know about the still-controversial novel. 1. Vladimir Nabokov found inspiration for Lolita in a newspaper article.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born in Russia in 1899 to a wealthy family. He was a chic youngster — a Swiss watch dangled from his wrist, a chauffeur escorted him to school — whose ...

Before she could publish The Enchanter , her book about novelist Vladimir Nabokov, Lila Azam Zanganeh needed the permission of the author’s son, Dmitri, who died last week at the age of 77.

At the back, Folio has reprinted Nabokov’s 1957 essay “On a Book Entitled ‘Lolita’”, where he confronted objections to the novel, while the front features a wonderful introduction from ...

Book of a lifetime: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. From The Independent archive: Joanna Briscoe is beguiled by the book and falls in love with the most playful, lyrically virtuoso prose writer of the ...

THE REAL LIFE OF SEBASTIAN KNIGHT (205 pp.)—Vladimir Nabokov—New Directions ($3.50). When fame strikes a writer late, ... The first book Nabokov wrote in English ...