Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in
1899. After studying French and Russian literature at
Trinity College, Cambridge, he launched his literary career
in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States,
here he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and
translator. Lolita, arguably his most famous novel, was
first published, by the Olympia Press, Paris, on September
15, 1955, and became a controversial success. Nabokov died
in Montreux Switzerland in 1977.