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Brian Boyd

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Brian Boyd (b.1952) is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

In 1979, after Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, he took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Auckland (appointed as lecturer in English in 1980). Also in 1979, Véra Nabokov, Nabokov’s widow, invited Boyd to catalog her husband’s archives, a task which he completed in 1981.

While Nabokov’s Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985; rev. 2001), was considered as "an instant classic," Vladimir...more

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Average rating: 4.27 · 847 ratings · 141 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years 4.30 avg rating — 125 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years 4.34 avg rating — 117 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery 4.12 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nabokov's ADA: The Place of Consciousness 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader by Brian Boyd (Editor), Joseph Carroll (Editor), Jonathan Gottschall (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Vladimir Nabokov 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Presents of the Past: Literature in English before 1900 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Words That Count: Essays on Early Modern Authorship in Honor of MacDonald P. Jackson 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating: