
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Our best yesterdays are now a foul pile of crumpled names.
Birth: | 22nd April, 1899 |
Death: | 2nd July, 1977 |
Nationality: | American, Russian |
Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian American novelist. Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.