Don't Know Much About Nabokov

Today in 1958, America met Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov's most sensational novel was first published in New York by G.P. Putnam's Sons on this date, almost three years after the book was originally published in Paris. It became an instant bestseller.

But there's a lot more to Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) than Lolita.

Born into wealth in tsarist St. Petersburg, Nabokov fled Russia with his family in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. He published nine novels in Russian before switching to Englis