Health, Sports & Psychology
A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
...worked as a translator, tutor, tennis coach, and compiler of crossword puzzles. In 1937 he moved to Paris, then in 1940 to the United States with his wife and child. He lectured, and also became an expert lepidopterist! However he is remembered mainly for his writing, his best known novel being the controversial Lolita (1955). From 1959 he resided in Switzerland, where he...