Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)

Vladimir Nabokov

Russian and American novelist (1899–1977)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin, where he met…