Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir NabokovVladimir Nabokov was a general fiction writer best known for his classic novel Lolita. This book showed his detailed writing and intricate wordplay that became a part of all his writing. The brilliant author was born in Russia in 1899 and started his career writing for the Russian émigré under his Vladimir Sirin pseudonym. In 1940, Nabakov relocated to the US and became a citizen in 1945. His debut novel Lolita was first published in 1955, and Nabakov wrote hundreds of other outstanding literary pieces during his lifetime. A few of his novels are listed among the best 100 books of the 20th century. In 1959, this author moved to Switzerland, where he lived a solitary lifestyle until he died in 1977.