Male : Novelist. Came to England during the Revolution, subsequently lived in Germany & France. 1940 emigrated to USA. Lived in Montreaux, Switzerland from 1959

Nationality : Russian Place of Birth : St Petersburg

Date of Birth : 1899 Date of Death : 1977 Age : 78

Pseudonyms : Vladimir Sirin

Other Work : Professor of Russian Literature at Cornell 1948-1959

Education : Trinity College, Cambridge (Romance & Slavic Languages)

1933-1940
Glory (first publ in Russian in Paris, 1932)
(1971 McGraw-Hill) (1972 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Camera Obscura (1933 first publ in Russian in Paris & Berlin)
(1937 Long, London)
Camera Obscura (Revised Ed) (1938 as "Laughter in the Dark" by Bobbs-Merrill) (1961 Weidenfeld)
[Filmed in 1969 as "Laughter in the Dark"]
Despair (1936 Berlin) (1937 Long, London)
[Filmed in 1978]
(1966 Putnam) (1966 Weidenfeld & N)
Invitation to a Beheading (1938 Paris, in Russian)
(1959 Putnam) (1960 Weidenfeld)

1941-1950
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941 New Directions) - 1500 (1945 Editions Poetry)
Nikolai Gogol (1944 New Directions) (1947 Editions Poetry)
Bend Sinister (1947 Holt) (1960 Weidenfeld)
Nine Stories (1947 New Directions)

1951-1960
Conclusive Evidence : A Memoir (1951 Harper)
(1952 Gollancz as "Speak Memory : An Autobiography Revisited)
The Gift (1952 in Russian, in New York $5.95) (1963 Putnam)
The Defence (First publ in Russian 1952, New York) (1964 Putnam) (1964 Weidenfeld)
(1963 Putnam) (1963 Weidenfeld)
[Filmed in 2000 as "The Luzhin Defence"]
Lolita (1955 Olympia Press, Paris) - 2 vols in wrappers (1958 Putnam) (1959 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Olympia Press Edition offered for £1650 in 2002
[When published in Paris it was ignored. Once Graham Greene had made it one of his
"three best books of the year" it suddenly became a best-seller (Despite being
banned by the French Govt) and was sold to publishers abroad]
[Filmed in 1962 & 1997]
Pnin (1957 Doubleday) (1957 Heinemann 13/6)
Nabokov's Dozen (1958 Doubleday) (1959 Heinemann) - ss

1961-1970
Poems (1961 Weidenfeld)
Pale Fire (1962 Putnam) (1962 Weidenfeld)
The Eye (1965 Phaedra NY) (1966 London)
The Waltz Invention : A Play in Three Acts (1966 Phaedra NY)
Despair (1966 Putnam NY)
Nabokov's Quartet (1966 Phaedra) (1967 Weidenfeld) - ss
Speak, Memory : An Autobiography Revisited (1967)
Nabokov's Congeries (1968 Viking Press, US)
King, Queen, Knave (1968 McGraw-Hill) (1968 Weidenfeld)
[Filmed in 1972]
Ada or Ardor : A Family Chronicle (1969 McGraw-Hill) (1969 Weidenfeld)
Anniversary Notes (1970 Northwestern TriQuarterly, Evanston)
Mary (1970 M-H) (1971 Weidenfeld)

After 1971
Poems and Problems (1971 McGraw-Hill) (1972 W)
Transparent Things (1973 M-H) (1973 W)
A Russian Beauty & Other Stories (1973 M-H) (1973 W)
Strong Opinions (1973 M-H) (1973 W)
Look at the Harlequins ! (1974 M-H) (1975 W)
Tyrants Destroyed & Other Stories (1975 M-H) (1975 W)
Details of a Sunset & Other stories (1976 M-H) (1976 W)
The Nabokov/Wilson Letters 1940-1971 (1978 Farrar Straus) (1979 W)
Lectures on Literature (1980 Harcourt Brace) (1980 Weidenfeld)
Lectures on Russian Literature (1981 HB) (1982 Weidenfeld)
Lectures on Don Quixote (1983 HB) (1983 Weidenfeld)
The Enchanter (1987 Picador)
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (1996 Knopf $35) - edited by Dmitri Nabokov

READING
Andrew Field : Nabokov - His Life in Art : A Critical Narrative (1967 Little Brown, Boston)
Andrew Field : Nabokov - A Bibliography (1974 McGraw-Hill)