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...love of fast boats and fast cars and helicopter skiing made him like a James Bond figure,” says Deanne Urmy, editor of “Nabokov’s Butterflies,” a collection of Vladimir’s writings which includes translations by Nabokov...
Always an adventurer, Dmitri Nabokov ’55 accelerated out of Harvard Yard on Commencement Day 50 years ago to embark upon a career studded with a colorful confetti of activity...
...that he’s 71, Nabokov, the only son of literary legend Vladimir, is being filmed for Russian television. The crew wants to shoot one of his race cars, perhaps a boat, and to ask him more than 30 questions composed in advance...
Since the publication of Vladmir’s famed “Lolita” in 1955, Nabokov has served as executor of his father’s literary estate and as unofficial spokesman for the late author, who also wrote “Pale Fire” and the autobiographical “Speak, Memory...
More than a custodian of his father’s works, Nabokov has become a jet-setter on his own, splitting his time between Palm Beach and Montreux, Switzerland. Like his father, he plays the prima donna to the media, insisting on interviewing through e-mail with The Crimson and crafting answers in advance for Russian television...