]–[>], [>]–[>]

  declines election to National Institute of Arts and Letters, [>]–[>]

  declines honorary degrees, [>], [>]

  Festschrift in honor of, [>]–[>], [>]

  invited to be Library of Congress Honorary Consultant in American Letters [>]–[>]

  receives Playboy award, [>]

  interviews

  corrects and comments on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  declines, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  false interview, [>]

  on his interviewers, [>]–[>]

  televised, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  lectures and invitations

  delivers a lecture, [>], [>], [>]

  invited to Israel, [>], [>]–[>]

  invited to deposit manuscripts at Library of Congress [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  invited to lecture, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  personal life

  daily life, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  early life in Berlin, [>]–[>]

  favorite books, [>]

  fiftieth wedding anniversary, [>]

  financial situation, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  health of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  indifference to gastronomy, [>]

  indifference to pornography, [>]

  interest in mimicry in nature, [>]

  on his biography, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  on his father, [>]–[>], [>]

  on independence of mind, [>]

  state of mind, [>]

  travels to Europe, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  travels to the West, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also Butterflies; Nabokov, Dmitri

  political views

  on America, [>]–[>], [>]

  on Germany, [>], [>], [>]

  on Israel, [>], [>]

  on landing on the moon, [>], [>]

  on Russian émigrés, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  on Soviet dissidents, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  on Soviet history writing, [>]

  on USSR, [>], [>], [>]

  writing and writers

  on book endorsements, [>]

  on copyright, [>]

  on his writing, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  on literary modernism, [>]–[>]

  on modern Russian poets, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  on moralizing literature, [>]–[>]

  on paperbacks, [>],

  on prosody, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  on reviews, [>]

  on Russian literature, [>]

  on writers' endorsements, [>], [>]

  on writers' responsibility, [>], [>]–[>]

  opposed to political novels, [>]–[>]

  rejects conference participation, [>]

  writing career

  anagrams and acrostics, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  applies for grants, [>], [>], [>]

  as autographer, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  as indexer, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as proofreader, [>]

  as translator, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>] (See also Translations; Translators)

  changes publisher, [>]

  clipping service, [>]–[>], [>]

  concern over publicity, [>], [>], [>]

  corrects Esquire misstatements, [>]–[>]

  corrects his Festschrift, [>]–[>]

  critical of editors, [>]

  declines to review, [>]

  his methodology, [>]

  on movies, [>]–[>]

  on second readers, [>], [>]

  penname (See Sirin, Vladimir)

  pleased with articles on him, [>]

  proposed publications, [>]–[>], [>]

  proposed translations, [>]–[>]

  proposes two projects to Hitchcock, [>]–[>]

  pseudonyms (See Bloodmark, Vivian; Darkbloom, Vivian)

  recordings, [>], [>]

  work in progress, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  See also under titles of VN's books

  Nabokov Archive, [>]

  Nabokov: His Life in Part (Field), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Nabokovian, [>]

  "Nabokov in Russian Émigré Criticism" (Foster), [>]

  "Nabokov's Artistry" (Schickel), [>]

  Nabokov's Congeries, [>], [>]

  Nabokpv's Dark Cinema (Appel), [>]

  Nabokov's Deceptive World (Rowe), [>]

  Nabokov's Dozen, [>], [>], [>]

  book cover design, [>]

  dust jacket design, [>]

  Nabokov's Quartet, [>]

  dust jacket design, [>]

  "Nabokov's Way" (Enright), [>]

  Nabokov: The Man and His Work (Dembo), [>]

  The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 940–97

  Karlinsky), [>], [>]

  Nakhamkes, I.M., [>]

  National Book Award, [>]

  National Book Committee, [>]–[>]

  National Medal for Literature, [>]–[>]

  The Nation. See Hatch, Robert

  Natural Child (Willingham), [>]–[>]

  Nemerov, Howard, [>]

  letters to, [>], [>]

  New American Library, [>], [>]

  New Directions, [>], [>], [>]

  The New Golden Land (Honour), [>]

  The New Leader, [>]

  Newman, Charles, [>]

  New Republic, [>]

  The New Russian Word, [>]

  The New Statesman

  letters to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  The New World (Steinberg), [>]

  New World Writing, [>]

  The New Worker, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also Maxwell, William; Ross, Harold;

  Shawn, William; White, Katharine A.

  New York Review of Books, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  letters to, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  See also Epstein, Barbara

  New York Sun, [>]

  New York Times, [>]

  letter to, [>]

  New York Times Book Review, [>]

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  See also Leonard, John; Lyons, Herbert

  New York Times Magazine, [>]

  "The NFactor" (Gass), [>]

  Nichols, Stephen, Jr., [>]

  Nicolson, Harold, [>]–[>]

  Nicolson, Nigel, [>], [>]–[>]

  Nikolai Gogol, [>]

  Nine, [>]

  Norman, Charles, [>]

  Not by Bread Alone (Dudintsev), [>]–[>]

  Notes from a Bottle Found on a Beach at Carmel (Connell), [>]

  Notes on Prosody, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Nouvelle Revue Française, [>], [>]

  Nouvelles Littéraires. See Lefevre

  Novel with Cocaine (Levi), [>]

  Novïty Zhurnal, [>], [>]

  Noyes, Charles (Viking)

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Noyes, George R.

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Nugget, [>]

  Oakes, Philip

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Obolensky, Ivan (McDowell, Obolensky), [>], [>]

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Obscene Publications Bill (Britain), [>]–[>]

  The Observer

  letter to, [>]

  Odoevtsev, Irina, [>]

  "Of Mandarins and Maoists" (White), [>]

  "The Old Magician at Home" (Shenker), [>]

  Olympia Press, 172, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  publications of banned, [>]

  See also Girodias, Maurice

  "On a Book Entitled Lolita," [>], [>]

  O'Neil, Paul, [>]

  "On Revisiting Father's Room" (Dmitri Nabokov), [>]

  The Opinions of Oliver Allston (Brooks), [>], [>]

  Opïtï, [>], [>]

  The Opposing Self (Trilling), [>]

  The Original of Laura, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Our Butterflies and Moths (Howe), [>]–[>]

  The Outrage, [>]

  Ovenden, Graham, [>]

  The Overcoat (Gogol), [>]

  Pale Fire, [>], [>]

  dust jacket design, [>]

  publication of, [>], [>]

  VN describes, [>]

  writing of, [>], [>]

  Pandit, R.V., [>]

  Panther Books, [>]

  Paris Match, [>]

  Parker, Dorothy, [>]

  Parker, Stephen Jan

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Parry, Albert, [>]

  Partisan Review, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also Rahv, Philip

  "The Passenger," [>], [>]

  The Passionate Friends (Wells), [>]

  Pasternak, Boris, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Paulhan, Jean, [>], [>]

  Pavlov, Ivan, [>]

  Pavlovich, Timofey, [>]

  Pavlovna, Maria, [>]

  Payne, Robert, [>]

  Penguin Books, [>]–[>]

  See also Mansell, Heather

  People, [>]

  "A Personal View of N" (Karlinsky), [>]

  Pertzov, Peter, [>]

  Peterson, Joan de

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Peterson, Natalya Nabokov de, [>]

  Peterson, Peter de, [>], [>]

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Petkevich, Olga (sister), [>], [>]

  Petkevich, Rostislav (nephew), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Petrov, Yevgeny, [>]

  Phaedra, [>], [>]

  "Pilgram," [>]

  Piotrow, F.J.

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Pipes, Richard

  letter to, [>]

  "Playback" (Noel), [>]

  Playboy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also Hefner, Hugh; Macauley, Robie;

  Spectorsky, A.C.

  Pnin, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  book cover design, [>]–[>], [>]

  dust jacket design, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  excerpts published, [>], [>], [>]

  publication of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  royalties, [>], [>]

  translations of, [>], [>], [>]

  VN answers editor's notes, [>]–[>], [>]

  VN on, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  writing of, [>], [>]

  "Pnin's Day," [>]–[>]

  Podvig, [>]

  Poe, Edgar Allan, [>]

  Poems

  dust jacket design, [>]–[>]

  Poems and Problems, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  The Poet of the Month (New Directions), [>]

  Poggioli, Renato, [>]

  Poirier, Richard, [>]

  Polking, Kirk (Writer's Digest)

  letter to, [>]

  Polyakov, Madame, [>]

  Popkin, Henry, [>]

  Poplavsky, Boris Yulianovich, [>]

  Poppy, John, [>]

  The Portable Nabokov, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  "Portrait of my Mother," [>]

  "Portrait of My Uncle," [>]

  Posel, Sidney L., [>]

  Poslednie novosti (Dernières nouvelles), [>]

  "The Potato Elf," [>]

  Pound, Ezra, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  The Pound Era (Kenner), [>]

  The Power of Blackness (Levin), [>]

  The Power of Darkness (Tolstoy), [>]

  Prescott, Orville, [>]

  The Present, [>]

  Pritchett, V.S., [>]–[>]

  "The Problem of the Igor Tale" (Moser), [>]

  "Problems of Translation: Onegin in English," [>]

  Producers Theatre, Inc., [>]

  Proffer, Ellendea

  letters to, [>], [>]

  Proffer, Carl R.

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Progressive, [>]

  The Provisional Government (V.D. Nabokov), [>], [>]

  Pushkin, [>]

  Pushkin, Aleksandr, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Putnam, Samuel, [>]

  Putnam's of London, [>]

  Pyatigorsky, Gregor, [>], [>]

  "The Queen of Spades" (Pushkin), [>]

  Rachmaninov, Sergey, [>]

  Rahv, Philip (Partisan Review)

  letters to, [>], [>], 172–[>]

  Random House, [>], [>], [>]

  The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, [>], [>], [>]

  publication of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  "Rebel Blue, Byrony White" (Times Educational Supplement), [>]

  Reinhardt, Max, [>]

  letters to, [>], [>]–[>]

  The Reporter, [>]

  "The Return of Chorb," [>], [>], [>]

  "A Review of a Novel You Can't Buy" (Schickel), [>]

  Revue Paris. See Thiebaut

  Reynolds, Victor (Cornell University Press), [>]

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]

  Robbe-Grillet, Alain, [>], [>]

  Roche, Denis (translator), [>]

  "The Room," [>]

  Rosen, K.N., [>]

  Rosenstein, Gertrude

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Roshchin, [>]

  Rosoff, Samuel

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ross, Harold (New Yorker), [>], [>], [>]

  letters to, [>]

  Rosset, Barney (Grove Press), [>]

  Rowe, William Woodin, [>]

  Rowohlt, [>]

  Roy, W. (translator), [>]

  Rul' (The Rudder), [>], [>], [>]

  Russell, Bertrand, [>]

  Russel, Peter

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, [>], [>]

  Russian Literature Triquarterly, [>]

  Russian orthography, [>]

  Russian Provisional Government, [>]

  Russian Review, [>]

  Russian Revolution, [>]

  "Russian Transparencies," [>]

  Rydelius, Ellen (translator), [>], [>]

  Sablin, Madame, [>], [>]

  Salinger, J.D., [>]

  Salisbury, Harrison, [>]

  Salter, James, [>]

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Saturday Evening Post

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Saturday Review

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Saturday Review of the Arts, [>]–[>]

  Sawyer, Buz, [>]

  Saxton Fellowship, [>]

  Schickel, Richard, [>]

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Schimanski, Stefan, [>]

  Schirman, Maître, [>]–[>]

  Schorer, Mark

  letter to, [>]

  Schreyer, Leslie J.

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Schwarz, Harry, [>]

  Schwarz-Bart, André, [>]

  Scott, W.B., [>]

  Scudder, Geoffrey George, [>]

  Scythians, [>]

  Selby, John

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Selvinsky, Ilya, [>], [>]

  Semler, Mrs. Peter (America)

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikplai Gogol (Karlinsky), [>]

  Shalyapin, Feodor. See Chaliapin, Feodor

  Shapiro, Harvey (New York Times Magazine)

  letter to, [>]

  Shaw, Irwin, [>]

  Shawn, William (New Yorker), [>], [>]

  The Sheltering Sky (Bowles), [>]

  Shenker, Israel (New York Times Book Review), [>]

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Shmelyov, Sergeyevich, [>]

  Sie Kommt-Kommt Sie?, [>]

  Sifton, Elisabeth (Viking), [>]

  Sikorski, Elena (sister)

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Simmons, John E.

  letters to, [>]–[>]

  Simon, John Kenneth

  letter to, [>]

  Simon, Richard, [>]

  Simon & Schuster, [>], [>]

  See also Brockway, Wallace

  Sirin, Vladimir (penname for VN), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Skow, John, [>]–[>]

  Slater, Lydia Pasternak, [>]

  Slonim, Sonia (sister-in-law), [>]

  Smenovehovtsï, [>]

  Smith, Stewart H.

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Snowdon, Lord, [>]

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Sokolov, Sasha, [>]

  Sologub, Fyodor. See Teternikov, Fyodor

  Solus Rex, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Some People (Harold Nicolson), [>]–[>]

  The Song of Igor's Campaign, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  translation of, [>]

  VN describes, [>]–[>]

  Soviet-American relations, [>], [>]

  Soviet Image of the United States (Barghoorn), [>]

  Sovremennïye Zapiski, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Speak, America, [>]

  Speak, Memory (Conclusive Evidence), [>], [>], [>]

  dust jacket design, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  publication of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  translations of, [>], [>], [>]

  VN on, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  writing of, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Speak On, Memory, [>]

  Spectorsky, A.C. (Playboy), [>]

  letters to, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  "Spring," [>], [>]

  Stanford University, [>]

  Starr, Frederick

  letter to, [>]–[>]

  Stegner, Page

  letters to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]