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Vladimir Nabokov-Novelist |
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. - Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American novelist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
Nabokov's Lolita (1955), his most famous novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire (1962) was ranked 53rd on the same list, and his memoir, Speak, Memory (1951), was listed eighth on the publisher's list of the 20th century's greatest nonfiction. - Wikepedia