Vladimir and Vera Nabokov outside their rented home in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1951. There, Nabokov completed his autobiography and began Lolita. Courtesy of The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov hide caption ...

There Nabokov met Vera Slonim, his future wife, ... Vladimir Nabokov arrived by ship in Athens, a refugee from the Bolshevik Revolution. He would never again set eyes on Russia.

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. (Feb.) ...

Nabokov finally takes hold and orders, mirabile dictu, a Swiss red. Vera accepts, graceful in this as in everything. With finely drawn, strong features, alabaster skin, brilliant white hair ...

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 ...

Then, in 1941, Nabokov and his wife, Vera, recent emigres from Russia, drove cross-country from Manhattan to Palo Alto, Calif., where Nabokov had accepted a summer teaching gig.

A plaque on a wall fronting side-by-side houses states: “On this site in 1953, Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) completed his notorious novel, ‘Lolita.’ ...

SAINT-PETERSBURG, April 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Vladimir Nabokov (pseudonym V.Sirin till 1940) is a Russian writer, translator, theorist of literature and an entomologist, having discovered new species ...

Vladimir Nabokov, Our Great Immigrant Novelist. By Basil Bob. May 1, 2025 10:00 am. Reading time: about 6 minutes In the introduction to his essay collection Reflections on Exile and Other ...

The adaptation of Adrienne Celt's book, which is a fictionalization of the marriage of Véra and Vladimir Nabokov, will star Tatiana Maslany. Skip to main content. Subscriptions ...