Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator and expert lepidopterist. Among his books are Lolita, published in 1955, Pale Fire from 1962, Invitation to a Beheading, and the memoir Speak, Memory from 1951. Nabokov wrote his first novels in Russian before moving to the United States and beginning to write in English, and he taught Russian literature at Cornell from 1948 to 1959.