TWA Poet: Vladimir Nabokov

1899 - 1977 “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”

Today is the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. He was the first of five children; his father was a lawyer and politician and the family were well-to-do members of the minor nobility. He grew up with access to a lavish library, and was trilingual, fluent in English and French, as well as his native Russian, from an ea…