Another bizarre stunt: Ibid., pp. 415–416.
“by nature I am no dramatist”: Preface to Lolita: A Screenplay, p. ix.
changed his mind about adapting Lolita: Letter from Nabokov to Morris Bishop, Selected Letters: 1940–1977, p. 309.
“a graceful ingenue but not my idea”: Nabokov, “On a Book Entitled Lolita,” Novels, 1955–1962, p. 672.
“I didn’t have to play Lolita”: Interview in the New York Times, 1971.
European newspapers: Manuscript box, miscellaneous clippings, 1960, Berg.
“a first-rate film with magnificent actors”: VNAY, p. 466.
gave his approval for the musicaclass="underline" Ibid., p. 583.
“I think he’s crude”: Interview with Nabokov by Robert Hughes, WNET, September 2, 1965, reprinted in Nabokov, Strong Opinions.
The irritation is evident: Interview with Nabokov, BBC, July 1962, reprinted in Nabokov, Strong Opinions, p. 15.
He denied Humbert Humbert: Paris Review, “The Art of Fiction No. 40,” 1967.
After one stern deniaclass="underline" BBC interview, reprinted in Strong Opinions, p. 17.
“with crooning sounds and fancy endearments”: Nabokov, Speak, Memory, p. 49.
“The desperate truth of Lolita’s story”: Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, p. 33.
Index
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accidents. See car accidents
Albara, Ella, 35. See also Horner, Ella (mother)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 54
Amis, Martin, 46
Anchor Review, excerpts of Lolita in, 212, 242
anime, 249
“Annabel Lee” (Poe), 54
Annibale, Emma, 162. See also DiRenzo, Emma
The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov & Appel), 219n, 226
Appel, Alfred, Jr., 54, 219n, 226
Atlantic City (NJ), 19–20, 22–26, 25, 39–40, 138
Auld, Howard, 79–80
Baker, Edward John, 171
background, 170–172
car accident involving, 183–187
civil suits against, 188
life after Sally’s death, 238
on Sally, 183
Baker, Edward, Jr., 238
Baltimore (MD), 83–84, 86–91, 129
Belvedere Hotel (Baltimore), 88
Bend Sinister (Nabokov), 28
Benson, Jacob, 174, 183–184, 188
Berle, Milton, 244
Berry, Amanda, 86
Bishop, Morris, 29, 203, 245
Bishop Dunne Catholic School, 113
Bowen, Oliver, 60
Boyd, Brian, 9–10, 226–227
Brigantine Beach (NJ), 21–23, 39–40
Brottman, Mikita, 6–7
Bruel, Andree, 102
Burkett, Arthur “Otto,” 235–236
Burrough Junior High, 158, 162
butterfly-hunting, 27, 29, 45, 103–105, 165–167, 166, 204, 214–215
Buxbaum, Richard, 102–105
Cahill, William, 139–141, 144
Cambridge (MA)
Lolita’s setting and, 105–106
Nabokov academic career in, 27–28, 29, 166
Camden (NJ). See also Courier-Post (Camden)
decline of, 94, 100
Dworecki case, 76–79
Forstein case and, 70–71
La Salle’s extradition to, 135–136, 138–139, 143–145, 189–190
McDade case, 79–81
mid-century optimism in, 12, 17–18, 41, 93–94
mid-century teen-age life in, 169–170
Sally’s encounters with La Salle in, 15–17, 65
as Sally’s hometown, 2, 18, 36
Sally’s return to, 139–142
statutory rape case, 61–64
“Walk of Death” massacre, 94–100
Camera Obscura (Nabokov), 48–49. See also Laughter in the Dark
Cape May County Gazette, on Wildwood car accident, 187
Caprioni, Dominick, 188
captivity narratives, 84–87, 115–116, 122–123
car accidents
Baker’s (Edward, Jr.), 238
G. Edward Grammar case, 200–202
La Salle’s hit-and-run, 60
in Lolita, 108, 200–203, 220
Pfeffer family’s, 21–24
Sally’s death and, 173–175, 183–188, 221, 257
Carroll, Lewis, 54
Carroll, Thomas, 61
Castro, Ariel, 85–86
Catholic schools, 89–92, 113, 149
Chiemingo, Diana. See Panaro, Diana
Child Pornography Prevention Act (1996), 250
Clara S. Burrough Junior High, 158, 162
Cleveland three abduction case, 85–86
Cohen, Charles, 96–97, 100
Cohen, Maurice, 96
Cohen, Mitchell, 139
advice for Sally and Ella, 148–149, 159
background, 73–75
on death penalty, 81
La Salle’s extradition, 135–136, 138–139, 143–144
La Salle’s guilty plea, 144–146, 147, 190, 192
La Salle’s kidnapping charges, 111
La Salle’s statutory rape case, 63
life after Sally’s death, 239
murder cases prosecuted by, 75, 78–80
Sally’s return home with, 139–141
“Walk of Death,” 98–100
Cohen, Rose, 96–97
Conclusive Evidence (Nabokov), 28, 102, 151–152. See Speak, Memory
connections to Lolita. See real-life connections to Lolita
copyright laws, 210, 213–215
Cornellous (Mother Superior), 90
Cornell University
Nabokov’s academic career at, 8, 29, 101–102, 105, 165–166, 203, 205–206
Nabokov’s leave of absence from, 214, 216
Courier-Post (Camden)
on car accident, 187
on Cohen, M., 41
on La Salle’s arrest, 136–138
on La Salle’s extradition, 137
on Sally’s encounter with Pfeffer family, 22
on Sally’s rescue, 131, 254
on search for Sally, 39
on “Walk of Death” massacre, 98
Covici, Pascal, 208
cross-country trips
of La Salle and Sally, 86–88, 112, 121–123, 138
in Lolita, 12, 28, 154, 178, 202, 219
of Nabokov family, 28–29, 102–105, 165–168, 177, 204–205, 214–216, 227–228
Daiches, David, 105
Dallas (TX)
Janisch family in, 117–118, 121
Sally’s captivity in, 111–116, 118–123, 129, 137, 192–194
Dar (Nabokov), 49–50
Dare, David, 59–60
Dare, Dorothy, 58–65, 145, 192, 196–197
Day, Alvin, 96
The Deer Park (Mailer), 211
Dejesus, Gina, 86
Dietrich, Marlene, 106, 108
DiRenzo, Emma, 17, 162. See also Annibale, Emma
Dolinin, Alexander, 154, 178–179, 181, 218, 254
Doran, Larry, 99
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 203
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 203
Driscoll, Alfred, 73, 136, 139
Dube, Wilfred, 139, 143–144, 238–239
Dugard abduction case, 85–86
Dworecki case, 75–79