Vladimir Nabokov
Writing
April 22, 1899
Died July 2, 1977 (78 years old)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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Acting Credits
Biography
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-born multilingual novelist, poet, translator, critic and entomologist considered the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian while living in Berlin. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959, before...
