Winner gets the VN book of his or her choice. Critical reception has been mostly positive, although Brian Boyd, writer of the definitive VN biographies , has written a very good review that expresses dissapointment with some lacunae in the book. Amazon Books has a very entertaining article by Stacy Schiff herself, dealing for the most part with the difficulties involved in writing about Vera. Zembla , always exhaustive and always delightful, gives us an interview with Ms. Schiff. The New York Times joins the centennial shindig .
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Dimitri Nabokov and Stacy Schiff are amongst those interviewed. The exhibition will focus on the building and continuing growth of Harvard's collections. On view will be not only literary first editions, but also significant dedication copies, periodicals, translations, manuscript material from the whole of Nabokov's carrer, and items of lepidopteral interest, drawn from Harvard Univeristy and private collections. VN's Harvard connections will be also emphasized. Curated by Golda Steinberg and John Rutter.