Vera, Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov

Summary

Stacy Schiff reconstructs the life of Vera Nabokov, the wife who typed, edited, drove, and fiercely guarded the career of novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Working from letters and interviews, Schiff shows how Vera shaped the writing of Lolita and other masterpieces while keeping herself almost invisible. The book matters as a portrait of a literary marriage and of a woman whose influence ran far deeper than the public ever saw.