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EDITOR's NOTE. This item is from NPR. Follow the link at bottom from a
New York Times www-page on VN.
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It's the birthday of Russian-born American novelist Vladimir Nabokov,
born
in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899). His father was a prominent
politician in
pre-Revolutionary Russia who was assassinated in 1922. Nabokov
spent his
life in exile from Russia-in Germany, England, France, the
United States, and
finally, Switzerland. He came to the US in 1939, and taught at
various colleges
and universities. He was teaching at Cornell University when he
wrote his most
famous and controversial novel, Lolita (1958). The success of
the book
allowed him to give up teaching, settle in Switzerland, and
devote the rest of
his life to his two greatest passions: writing and butterfly
collecting.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html
New York Times www-page on VN.
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It's the birthday of Russian-born American novelist Vladimir Nabokov,
born
in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899). His father was a prominent
politician in
pre-Revolutionary Russia who was assassinated in 1922. Nabokov
spent his
life in exile from Russia-in Germany, England, France, the
United States, and
finally, Switzerland. He came to the US in 1939, and taught at
various colleges
and universities. He was teaching at Cornell University when he
wrote his most
famous and controversial novel, Lolita (1958). The success of
the book
allowed him to give up teaching, settle in Switzerland, and
devote the rest of
his life to his two greatest passions: writing and butterfly
collecting.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html