Times Educational Supplement,
London, October 23, 1970
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg on April 23, 1899. His family fled to Germany in 1919, during the Bolshevik Revolution. Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1919 to 1923, then lived in Berlin (19231937) and Paris (1937 — 1940) where he began writing, mainly in Russian, under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940 he moved to the United States, where he pursued a brilliant literary career (as a poet, novelist, critic, and translator) while teaching literature at Wellesley College, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. The monumental success of his novel Lolita (1955) enabled him to give up teaching and devote himself fully to his writing. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Recognized as one of this century's master prose stylists in both Russian and English, he translated a number of his original English works — including Lolita — into Russian, and collaborated on English translations of his original Russian works.
Books by Vladimir Nabokov
NOVELS
Mary
King, Queen, Knave The Defense
The Eye Glory
Laughter in the Dark
Despair
Invitation to a Beheading
The Gift The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Bend Sinister
Lolita
Pnin
Pale Fire Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Transparent Things
Look at the Harlequins!
SHORT FICTION
Nabokov's Dozen A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
The Enchanter
DRAMA
The Waltz Invention
Lolita: A Screenplay The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Strong Opinions
BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM
Nikolai Gogol
Lectures on Literature
Lectures on Russian Literature Lectures on Don Quixote
TRANSLATIONS
Three Russians Poets: Translations of Pushkin,
Lermontov, and Tiutchev
A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)
The Song of Igor's Campaign (Anon.)
Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
LETTERS
The NabokovWilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 19401971
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 19401977
MISCELLANEOUS
Poems and Problems The Annotated Lolita