One of the twentieth century's master prose stylists, <b>Vladimir Nabokov</b> was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard.  In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.<br><br><b>Jeremy Irons</b> plays the role of
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