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Vladimir Nabokov
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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)

Also known as: Nabokov, V. Sirin, Vl. Sirin, Vladimir Sirin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Wladimir Nabokoff-Sirin

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Known works

  • The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
  • Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
  • The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
  • Lolita
  • The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition