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Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita in 1955, a novel banned in the United States and United Kingdom until 1958. He fled the Russian Revolution and Nazi Germany, eventually settling in Switzerland. He was a lepidopterist who donated his butterfly collections to Harvard University and the Zoology Museum in Lausanne, and also composed chess problems.

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1660 1990