Who is Vladimir Nabokov?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on 22 April 1899 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The eldest son of an aristocratic family, Nabokov had access to the best in education and social contact. He was able to speak English and French from an early age, and by the time he graduated from university, he was already well known in literary circles. Nabokov’s family immigrated to Western Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1917, where they continued to play a prominent social and political role. After Nabokov’s father was the victim of an assassination mistake, Nabokov left the family home and moved around quite a bit, finally settling in Berlin in 1923. It was there where he met and married Véra Slonim and where his only son was born eleven years later. Nabokov stayed in Europe until the beginning of World War II. In 1940, concerned about the German troops taking over, he moved his family to Norfolk County, Massachusetts and took a post in Wellesley College as a resident lecturer. He created
