Novelist, Zoologist (23-Apr-1899 — 2-Jul-1977)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Brian Boyd. Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton University Press. 1991. 783pp.

Brian Boyd. Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. Princeton University Press. 1990. 607pp.

Andrew Field. Nabokov: His Life in Art. Little, Brown and Co.. 1967.

Andrew Field. Nabokov: His Life in Part. New York: Viking Press. 1977.

Kurt Johnson; Steven L. Coates. Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books. 1999. 372pp.

Simon Karlinsky (editor). The Nabokov-Wilson Letters. New York: Harper & Row. 1979.

J. E. Rivers; Charles Nicol (editor). Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work. University of Texas Press. 1982.

John O. Stark. The Literature of Exhaustion: Borges, Nabokov, and Barth. Duke University Press. 1974. 196pp.

Justin Weir. The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov. Northwestern University Press. 2002. 147pp.

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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.821)

7. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.543)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.508)

9. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.153)

10. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1061)

11. Webster's American Biographies (p.759)

12. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.172)

13. Contemporary Novelists (pp.915-20)

14. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.521)

15. Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement (p.703)

16. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.716)

17. Current Biography, 1966 Yearbook (pp.288-91)

18. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.528)

19. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.361)

20. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.11)

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