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Notes
This book is based extensively on primary sources wherever available, including court documents and transcripts, prison records, legislative records, and testimony. I am grateful for the assistance of the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, New Jersey; the Camden County Historical Society in Camden, New Jersey; the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, Maryland; the Baltimore City Archives in Baltimore, Maryland; the City Archives and the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Our Lady of Victory Center, Bishop Dunne Catholic School, and the Diocesan Archives in Dallas, Texas; and the National Archives offices in Leavenworth, Kansas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, California.
When court documents were unavailable or lost, I relied on newspaper accounts, most notably the Camden Courier-Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, which had the most comprehensive stories about Sally Horner’s abduction, rescue, and death between 1948 and 1952.
I conducted dozens of interviews for the book, including several conversations with Sally’s niece, Diana Chiemingo; one telephone conversation with Diana’s father, Al Panaro, in 2014; two telephone conversations with Carol Taylor, in 2016 and 2017; and two conversations with “Madeline La Salle,” in 2014. Other invaluable sources with firsthand memories of principal characters included “Rachel Janisch” and “Vanessa Janisch”; Fred Cohen and Peggy Braveman; Tom Pfeil; and Emma DiRenzo.
For the Nabokov sections, I relied on files, clippings, note cards, and letters deposited at the Library of Congress as well as at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Grateful acknowledgment for permission to access the Berg Collection is given to the Wylie Agency, on behalf of the Nabokov Estate, and to Isaac Gewirtz, Lyndsi Barnes, Joshua McKeon, and Mary Catherine Kinniburgh for their assistance and advice.
I also drew from the earlier work of Brian Boyd, Stacy Schiff, Andrew Field, Alexander Dolinin, and other Nabokov scholars. Schiff also generously shared her time, and advice, in a telephone conversation in April 2017, while Boyd was similarly helpful in an email exchange that same month. A telephone conversation with Walter Minton, in addition to earlier and later quotes, proved helpful with respect to the publication process of Lolita in the United States.
For additional historical context on Camden, I relied on Camden After the Falclass="underline" Decline and Renewal in a Post-American City by Howard Gillette (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) and the Local History: Camden website maintained by Phil Cohen at http://www.dvrbs.com.
Berg: Vladimir Nabokov Archives, Berg Collection, New York Public Library, New York, NY
LOC: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Archives, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
NJSA: New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, NJ
VNAY: Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton University Press, 1991)
Unless noted otherwise, all interviews were with the author.
no “little deadly demon”: Lolita, p. 15.
It happened to the writer Mikita Brottman: Mikita Brottman, The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison, pp. 196–197.
“I hate tampering with the precious lives”: Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature, p. 138.
“It is strange, the morbid inclination”: Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol, p. 40.
three increasingly tendentious biographies: The level of acrimony in Andrew Field’s VN (1986) compared with Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967) and Nabokov: His Life in Part (1977) is astonishing; the falling-out between biographer and subject would make an excellent play.
A two-part definitive study: Boyd’s Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and VNAY (1991).
Stacy Schiff’s 1999 portrayaclass="underline" Schiff, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov).
lifted its fifty-year restriction: Finding Aid, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Papers, Manuscript Division, LOC.
an earlier Nabokov story, “Spring in Fialta”: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, p. 413.
Sally Horner walked into the Woolworth’s: “Camden Girl Saved from Kidnapper in Calif,” Camden Courier-Post, March 22,1950, p. A1.
on a March afternoon in 1948: From Camden County prosecutor Mitchell Cohen’s remarks at an April 2, 1950, court hearing, reported by the Courier-Post on April 3, p. AI.
A slender, hawk-faced man: Associated Press, March 22, 1950, taken from the Lima (Ohio) News, p. 5.
A scar sliced his cheek: Draft registration card, January 1944.
suicide of her alcoholic husband: Death certificate of Russell Horner, March 24,1943.
Her homeroom teacher, Sarah Hanlin: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23,1950, p. 3.
Emma DiRenzo, one of Sally’s classmates: Interview with Emma DiRenzo, November 13, 2017.
The telephone rang: Camden Courier-Post, March 23,1950.
Ella let her concerns slide: United Press, Salt Lake Tribune, August 6,1948, p. 5.
Robert and Jean Pfeffer were newlyweds: This section draws almost entirely from two newspaper reports that quoted Robert Pfeffer at length: Camden Courier-Post, March 24, 1950, p. 2; and Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24,1950, p. 3.
Ella was relieved: Camden Evening Courier, August 6, 1948, p. I.
Detective Joseph Schultz: Courier-News, Bridgewater, NJ, August 6, 1948, p. 15.
the lodging house: The 203 Pacific Avenue address came from the 1940 census; La Salle was known to return to addresses where he had lived in the past.
“He didn’t take any of his or the girl’s clothes”: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23,1950, p. I.