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Ah, fleeting fame!
The "writealike" winner was me, Chaz Nicol. Doubtless Gene
would have won had he entered, but he was one of the judges and helped put
up the fortune in prize money, so it might have looked suspicious. I
believe Brian Boyd was the other judge and philanthropist.
The contest had two steps: first, the judges narrowed down the
entries and mixed them with some actual unpublished VN prose,
and then the rest of the Society voted for the "real"
Nabokov. Since everybody who voted, voted for me, I beat
out the Original of Vladimir. If you would like to read 200 more
words adding to the adventures of Timofey Pnin, please turn to,
um, I think, the June 1999 or 2000 issue of the Nabokovian;
the winner was announced in the following December
issue.
ps: My episode is about Pnin learning to drive (which puts him
up one on his original author). What I didn't say there was that I
believe he ended up driving a 1948 Studebaker, a car that resembed an
Easter egg equipped with the nose of a B-29.
Chaz
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Don Johnson <chtodel@COX.NET> wrote:
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