Vladimir Nabokov
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Summary: Russian expatriate who became one of the greatest minds in twentieth century literature. Most famous for his controversial novel 'Lolita.'Link: Wiki VN
Summary: Wikipedia's article on Vladimir Nabokov, with branching articles on his novels--definitive
Link: Waxwing
Summary: The VN appreciation site--eclectic
Link: Vladimir Nabokov Centennial
Summary: Nabokov feature at Random House
Link: Zembla
Summary: Nabokovian studies website hosted at Penn State
Vladimir Nabokov began his literary career in the Russian emegre literary circles of Berlin in the 1920s. After fleeing Hitler's regime from Berlin to Paris, then from Paris to New York, he took up writing in English and became one of America's greatest prose stylists.
The novel is alive!
Summary: Vladimir Nabokov featured on the May 23, 1969 cover of Time
From: 
http://www.time.com/.../0,16641,1101690523,00.htmlVladimir and Vera
Summary: Nabokov and his wive Vera in New York, 1940s
From: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/bio2.htmYoung Nabokov, lepidopterist
http://www.ormstunga.is/islenska/hofundar/nabokov-i.htm
Jetpak: Lolita, By Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e2189db6-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: "Would you be interested in publishing a time bomb that I have just finished putting together? It is a novel of 459 typewritten pages." Thus Nabokov pitched 'Lolita' to publishers.
Jetpak: Pale Fire, By Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e1fdeec6-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2fSummary: "I have no desire to twist and batter an unambiguous 'apparatus criticus' into the monstrous semblance of a novel." Charles Kinbote shoots himself in the foot.
