VERA(ISBN=9780375755347)

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all.

"Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine--a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Stacy Schiff 's Saint Exùpery was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement. She lives with her family in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

INTRODUCTION
1　PETERSBURG 3848
2　THE ROMANTIC AGE
3　THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
4　THE PERSON IN QUESTION
5　NABOKOV 101
6　NABOKOV 102
7　PAST PERFECT
8　AUTRES RIVAGES
9　LOOK AT THE MASKS
10　THE LAND BEYOND THE VEIL
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX