Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945.
Nabokov's 1947 novel Bend Sinister is
about an intellectual's battle with a police state.
Like Nabokov, Waugh, and Ray Bradbury,
Kingsley Amis never learned to drive an automobile.
Furthermore, Updike was
seen as the"best prose writer in the world", like Nabokov before him.
The Blackwing 602 is famous for being used by a lot of writers,
especially John Steinbeck and Vladimir Nabokov.
The cabinet's leading politicians were Minister of Justice Nabokov and Minister of Foreign Affairs Vinaver,
who were among the leaders of the All-Russian Constitutional Democratic Party(Cadets).
Vissarion Belinsky praised it as a masterpiece, but Vladimir Nabokov(who translated the novel into English)
was not so sure about the language:“The English reader should be aware that Lermontov's prose style in Russian is inelegant, it is dry and drab;
Entomology developed rapidly in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was studied by large numbers of people, including such notable figures as Charles Darwin, Jean-Henri Fabre,
Vladimir Nabokov, Karl von Frisch(winner of the 1973 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner E. O. Wilson.