Yuri LevingYuri Leving is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of nine books and editor of six volumes, including Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Originalof Laura (2013); Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols” (Bloomsbury, 2012), and Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl – Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel in Art and Design (2013). Leving has published over a hundred scholarly articles, many of them devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, and is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes, and was the curator for the exhibition “Nabokov’s Lolita: 1955-2005” in Washington, D.C., which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) named Prof. Leving the 2017 recipient of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship. Read More Read Less