About the Author

After a brilliant literary career writing in Russian, Vladimir Nabokov(1899-1977) immigrated to the United States in 1940 and went on to an even more brilliant one in English. Between 1939 and 1974 he wrote the autobiography and eight novels collected by the Library of America in an authoritative three-volume set.

Brian Boydis a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is the author ofNabokov's Pale Fire- The Magic of Artistic Discovery.