1. Mary McCarthy interview, Dec. 1985, courtesy Brian Boyd.
2. Simon Karlinsky, ed., Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940–1971 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), p. 236.
3. Jeffrey Meyers, Edmund Wilson: A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), p. 441.
1. Robert Roper, Nabokov in America: The Road to Lolita (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), p. 25.
2. Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (London: Vintage, 1991), p. 18.
3. Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 149.
4. Boyd, American Years, p. 20.
5. Edmund Wilson, The Twenties, ed. Leon Edel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), p. xxiii.
6. Ibid., p. xxv.
7. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 319.
8. Wilson, Twenties, p. 157.
9. Norman Podhoretz, Doings and Undoings: The Fifties and After in American Writing (New York: Noonday Press, 1964), p. 36.
10. Edmund Wilson, The American Jitters (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932; reprint, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968), p. 307.
11. Edmund Wilson, Red, Black, Blond and Olive (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), p. 263.
12. Ibid., p. 219.
13. Ibid., p. 376.
14. Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912–1972, ed. Elena Wilson (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), p. 737 (hereafter cited as LLP).
15. Wilson, Twenties, p. 316.
16. Ibid., p. 318.
17. Rosalind Baker Wilson, Near the Magician: A Memoir of My Father, Edmund Wilson (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989), p. 32.
18. Lewis Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), p. 26.
19. Ibid, p. 309.
20. LLP, p. xxi.
21. Ibid., p. 45.
22. Ibid., p. 82.
23. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 23; Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), p. 121.
24. Brian Boyd, “Nabokov as Translator,” http://www.usp.br/rus/images/edicoes/Rus_n01/04_BOYD_Brian_-_Nabokov_as_Translator_-_Passion_and_Precision.pdf., p. 7.
25. Vladimir Nabokov, trans., Commentary to Eugene Onegin, part 2, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Washington, DC: Bollingen Foundation, 1964), p 130.
26. Roper, Nabokov in America, p 14.
27. Edmund Wilson, The Fifties, from Notebooks and Diaries of the Period, ed. Leon Edel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986), p. 427.
28. Boyd, Russian Years, p. 506.
1. Boyd, American Years, p. 13.
2. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 69.
3. Nabokov correspondence, Aug. 2, 1944, Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
4. Boyd, American Years, p. 571.
5. Edmund Wilson, “The Pickerel Pond,” Night Thoughts (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1961), p. 240.
6. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 348.
7. Ibid., p. 164.
8. LLP, p. 535.
9. Rosalind Wilson, Magician, p. 32.
10. Wilson, Twenties, p. 494.
11. Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 254.
12. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 99.
13. LLP, p. 378.
14. Edmund Wilson, “Notes on Russian Literature,” Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1943.
15. Wilson letter to Nabokov, Dec. 12, 1940, Wilson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
16. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 76.
17. Wilson letter to Nabokov, Nov. 23, 1960, Berg Collection.
18. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, “Sinistral Details: Nabokov, Wilson, and Hamlet in Bend Sinister,” Nabokov Studies 1, no. 1 (1994): 179–194.
19. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 232.
20. Ibid., p. 290.
21. Elena Levin interview, Oct. 22, 1990, courtesy of Brian Boyd.
22. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 306.
23. The New Yorker, Sept. 9, 1944.
24. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 282.
25. New York Times, Feb. 18, 1951.
26. Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Part (New York: Viking Press, 1977), p. 254.
27. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 210.
28. Ibid.
29. Edmund Wilson, The Fruits of the MLA (New York: New York Review Books, 1968), p. 7.
30. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, pp. 67–68.
31. Ibid., p. 208.
32. Ibid., p. 171.
33. LLP, p. 409.
34. Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel, The Annotated Lolita (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970), p. xlviii.
35. Edmund Wilson, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971), p. 176.
36. Boyd, American Years, p. 313.
1. Edmund Wilson, The Forties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983), p. 109.
2. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 311.
3. LLP, p. 437.
4. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 189.
5. LLP, p. 438.
6. Gennady Barabtarlo, “Nabokov in the Wilson Archive,” fn. 3, at http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/index.html?id=1285.
7. LLP, p. 444.
8. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 316.
9. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 215.
10. Ibid., pp. 313–314.
11. Ibid., p. 229.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., pp. 313, 317.
14. Harry Levin interview, Oct. 22, 1990, courtesy of Brian Boyd.
15. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 320.
16. Boyd, American Years, p. 377.
17. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 363.
1. Boyd, American Years, p. 371.
2. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 246.
3. Boyd, American Years, p. 648.
4. Ibid., p. 613.
5. “Legend and Symbol in ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ ” Encounter, June 1959.
6. Stacy Schiff, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (New York: Modern Library, 2000), p. 244.
7. Ibid., p. 243.
8. Ibid., p. 244.
9. Boyd, American Years, p. 386.
10. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, pp. 222, 223.
11. Edmund Wilson, The Triple Thinkers (New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), p. 200.
12. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 23.
13. LLP, p. 535.
14. Edmund Wilson, The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963), p. 115.
15. Edmund Wilson, The Sixties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), p. 295.
16. Boyd, American Years, p. 480.
17. Newsweek, June 25, 1962.
1. Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (New York: Harcourt, 1967), p. 295.
2. Andrei Sinyavsky, Strolls with Pushkin, trans. Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava Yastremski (New Haven: Yale University Press: 1993), p. 92.
3. Nabokov, Onegin “Commentary,” part 1, p. 137.
4. Nabokov, Onegin, vol. 1, p. 7.
5. Quoted in James Russell, “Iranians, Armenians, Prince Igor, and the Lightness of Pushkin,” Iran and the Caucasus 18 (2014), p. 364.
6. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 139.
7. Ibid., p. 253.
8. The New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1955.
9. Boyd, American Years, p. 23.
10. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 355.
1. New York Times, June 20, 1982.
2. Brockway letter, Oct. 1957, Bollingen Archive.
3. Brockway letter, Feb. 1958, ibid.
4. Wormer letter, July 29, 1963, ibid.
5. Schiff, Véra, p. 214.
6. Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau de Marot (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 268.
7. Nabokov, Onegin “Commentary,” pp. 229, 462.
1. All three letters are in the Nabokov correspondence, Berg Collection.
2. Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973), p. 240
3. Letter from Lise to “Dear Anne,” Aug. 8, 1962, Nabokov correspondence, Library of Congress.
4. Letter from William McGuire to Vladimir Nabokov, May 22, 1963, Berg Collection.
5. Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940–1977, ed. Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989), p. 345.
6. Ibid., p. 358.
7. LLP, p. 277.
8. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 245.
9. Ibid., p. 284.
10. Ibid., p. 290.
11. Edmund Wilson, “Pushkin,” A Window on Russia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972), pp. 15–27.
12. Stanley Edgar Hyman, The Armed Vision (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948), quoted in Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 233.
13. Ibid., p. 652.
14. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 17.
15. Walter Arndt, trans., Eugene Onegin (Woodstock, NY: Ardis Publishers, 2002) , p. xv.
1. Vladimir Nabokov, “A Reply to My Critics,” Encounter, Feb. 1966.
2. Edmund Wilson, New Statesman, Jan. 5, 1968.
3. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 424.
4. Nicholas Dawidoff, The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World (New York: Pantheon, 2002), p. 201.
5. Ibid, p. 201.
6. Boyd, American Years, p. 215.
1. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 393.
2. Sweeney, “Sinistral Details,” pp. 179–194.
3. Dabney, Edmund Wilson, p. 471.
4. Meyers, Edmund Wilson, p. 461.
5. Wilson, Sixties, p. 718.
6. Ibid.
7. Wilson, Income Tax, p. 92.
8. Alfred Kazin, New York Jew (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), p. 238.
9. Boyd, American Years, p. 381.
10. Ibid., p. 365.
11. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 246.
12. Richard Hauer Costa, Edmund Wilson: Our Neighbor from Talcottville (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1980), p. 149.
13. Schiff, Véra, p. 308.
14. LLP, p. 733.
15. Martha Duffy interview for Time, undated, Berg Collection.
16. Nabokov’s list of “suggested” changes to Field’s draft is in the Berg Collection.
17. Karlinsky, Dear Bunny, p. 254.
1. Wilson, Income Tax, p. 12.
2. Schiff, Véra, p. 183.
3. Boyd, American Years, p. 46.
4. Nabokov, Speak, Memory (New York: Everyman’s Library, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), p. 248.
5. Boyd, Russian Years, p. 509.
6. New Statesman, Dec. 1967.
7. “Nabokov in the Wilson Archive,” at http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/index.html?id=1285.
8. New York Times, Jan. 16, 1972.
9. New York Times, Feb. 6, 1972.
10. Ibid., Mar. 5, 1972.
1. Field, Life in Part, p. 25.
2. Roper, Nabokov in America, p. 256.
3. New York Times, July 5, 1977.
4. Nabokov, Selected Letters, p. 374.
5. Boyd, American Years, p. 495.
6. George Steiner, “[article title?], The New Yorker, Dec. 10, 1990.
7. Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye (New York: Vintage, 1990), preface.
8. Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia’s Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998), p. 39.
9. Elena Levin interview, Mar. 22, 1983, courtesy of Brian Boyd.
10. Undated Martha Duffy dispatch for Time cover story, May 23, 1969, Berg Collection.
11. Boyd, American Years, p. 48.
12. Letter from Edmund Wilson to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oct. 21, 1933, LLP, p. 231.
13. LLP, p. 478.
14. Ibid., p. 497.
15. Ibid., p. 309.
16. Ibid., p. 653.
17. Theroux, Sir Vidia’s Shadow, p. 99.