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From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
From VNCOLLATION #16
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/vncol6.htm
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Perhaps you have "searched" the internet, as I have, using
Nabokov as a "keyword" and run across Peter Nabokov,
anthropologist, author, and in the end relative to Vladimir
Nabokov. I encountered him so many times and so insistently did
his name require that I discover what connection, if any he had
with our shared protagonist that, after a less than thorough
investigation, I determined that:
1.Peter Nabokov is the son of Nicolas Nabokov, VN's cousin,
and Constance Holladay.
2.He was born in Auburn, New York on October the 11th,
1940.
3.After graduating from Columbia University where he received
his B.S. in 1965 he led a life of adventure, scholarship and
pedagogy which finally culminated in a PhD from Berkely in
1990. He now teaches anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison where a sign on his door not so gently
jests:
1564-1994
500 years of tourism.
4.His primary interest is in Native Americans about whom he
has written several esteemed and unique works.
In a March 5, San Francisco Chronicle review, Nabokov is
profiled against the background of an obscured family tree:
"It may seem odd that a kid from the lower East Side
of New York would grow up to become a leading
expert on Native American history. But to former
Berkeley anthropologist, Peter Nabokov, now 53, the
path from Russian and Scots- Irish ancestry to his sixth
book, Native American Testimony was 'clear and true' from
early childhood.
'I was six when my mother pointed out some
bark-covered wigwams from the window of a train.
The sight of them really struck me. "My God" I
thought, "these people were here all along'
In his ability to recreate a world through the slow steady
cumulation of detail, in the fecundity of his scholarship and the
accuracy of his prose and on many other vibratory vectors, I
consider P. Nabokov's writing to resemble, if only slightly,
that of his distinguished first-cousin-once removed.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
From VNCOLLATION #16
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/vncol6.htm
************************************************************
Perhaps you have "searched" the internet, as I have, using
Nabokov as a "keyword" and run across Peter Nabokov,
anthropologist, author, and in the end relative to Vladimir
Nabokov. I encountered him so many times and so insistently did
his name require that I discover what connection, if any he had
with our shared protagonist that, after a less than thorough
investigation, I determined that:
1.Peter Nabokov is the son of Nicolas Nabokov, VN's cousin,
and Constance Holladay.
2.He was born in Auburn, New York on October the 11th,
1940.
3.After graduating from Columbia University where he received
his B.S. in 1965 he led a life of adventure, scholarship and
pedagogy which finally culminated in a PhD from Berkely in
1990. He now teaches anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison where a sign on his door not so gently
jests:
1564-1994
500 years of tourism.
4.His primary interest is in Native Americans about whom he
has written several esteemed and unique works.
In a March 5, San Francisco Chronicle review, Nabokov is
profiled against the background of an obscured family tree:
"It may seem odd that a kid from the lower East Side
of New York would grow up to become a leading
expert on Native American history. But to former
Berkeley anthropologist, Peter Nabokov, now 53, the
path from Russian and Scots- Irish ancestry to his sixth
book, Native American Testimony was 'clear and true' from
early childhood.
'I was six when my mother pointed out some
bark-covered wigwams from the window of a train.
The sight of them really struck me. "My God" I
thought, "these people were here all along'
In his ability to recreate a world through the slow steady
cumulation of detail, in the fecundity of his scholarship and the
accuracy of his prose and on many other vibratory vectors, I
consider P. Nabokov's writing to resemble, if only slightly,
that of his distinguished first-cousin-once removed.
Suellen Stringer-Hye
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu