Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist: How A Dispossessed Tsarist Aristocrat Became The Guy Who Got The Dead-On Americana Of “Lolita”

“Nabokov arrived on these shores, penniless and without prospects, in 1941, at the age of forty, having only begun writing in English shortly before his flight from Europe. How could a book so thoroughly – so definingly – American have arisen … from so seemingly unlikely a source?”