AKA Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Born: 23-Apr-1899
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Died: 2-Jul-1977
Location of death: Montreux, Switzerland
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Remains: Cremated, Cimitière de Clarens, Clarens, Switzerland

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Zoologist

Nationality: Russia
Executive summary: Lolita

Novelist, lepidopterist.

Father: Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (politician; d. 1922 disrupting an assassination attempt)
Mother: Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikov (d. 1939)
Brother: Sergei Vladimirovich Nabokov (b. 12-Mar-1900, d. 9-Jan-1945 of dysentery in a Nazi labor camp)
Sister: Olga (b. 5-Jan-1903)
Sister: Elena (b. 31-Mar-1906)
Brother: Kiril Vladimirovich Nabokov (b. 1911, d. 1964)
Wife: Véra Slonim (b. 1902, m. 15-Apr-1925, d. 7-Apr-1991)
Son: Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (b. 10-May-1934)

    University: BA French and Russian Literature, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1922)
    Professor: European and Russian Literature, Wellesley College (1941-48)
    Scholar: Lepidopterist, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (1941-48)
    Professor: European and Russian Literature, Cornell University (1948-58)

    Guggenheim Fellowship 1943
    Guggenheim Fellowship 1952
    Risk Factors: Psoriasis, Synaesthesia, Insomnia

Author of books:
Mashenka (1925, novel, translated as Mary, 1970)
Korol', Dama, Valet (1928, novel, trans. King, Queen, Knave, 1968)
Zashchita Luzhina (1930, novel, trans. The Defense, 1964)
Soglyadatay (1930, novel, trans. The Eye, 1965)
Podvig (1932, novel, trans. Glory, 1971)
Kamera obscura (1933, novel, trans. Laughter in the Dark, 1938)
Otchayanie (1936, novel, trans. Despair, 1966)
Priglashenie na Kazn' (1938, novel, trans. Invitation to a Beheading, 1959)
Dar (1937-8, novel, originally serialized; collected 1952, trans. The Gift, 1963)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941, novel, first English novel)
Nikolai Gogol (1944, pseudo-biography of Gogol)
Bend Sinister (1947, novel)
Conclusive Evidence (1951, novel, later reworked into Speak, Memory)
Lolita (1955, in France, 1958 in America)
Pnin (1957, novel)
Pale Fire (1962, novel)
Eugene Onegin (1964, translation and criticism of the Pushkin poem, 4 vols.)
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1967)
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969, novel)
Transparent Things (1972, novel)
Strong Opinions (1973, interviews)
Look at the Harlequins! (1974, novel)
Lectures on Literature (1980, lectures, ed. Fredson Bowers)
Lectures on Russian Literature (1981, lectures, ed. Fredson Bowers)
Lectures on Don Quixote (1983, lectures, ed. Fredson Bowers)

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