Vra: Mrs Nabokov - Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff

Category: Classic

Narrator: Anna Fields

Tags: Classic, History, Romance

Run time: 18:13:45, Columbia University President George Rupp presents Stacy Schiff with The 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Vra: Mrs Nabokov. Stacy Schiff is also the author of Saint-Exupery, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in biography., Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) By Stacy Schiff, At once a love story, a portrait of a marriage, and an answer to a riddle, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) explores a remarkable literary partnershipthat of a woman who devoted her life to her husbands art and a man who dedicated his works to his wife. Open a volume of Nabokovs, and there is Vera on the dedication page, front and center. But search for her elsewhere, and the woman to whom the author of Lolita was married for fifty-two years, who carried on his correspondence in his name, fades from view., In a beautifully limned portrait, Stacy Schiff has now restored her to life. Schiff follows Vera Nabokov from her affluent St. Petersburg childhood, through the dramatic escape from Bo