Stalking Nabokov – Researching a Biography by Brian Boyd

On April 1, 2012, in Art & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called “brilliant.” After gaining exclusive access to the writer’s archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by Boyd since completing the biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations.