by Stacy Schiff · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644387
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«Véra. Señora de Nabokov» is the biography of Vladimir Nabokov's wife written by Stacy Schiff, published by Alianza in paperback (760 pages, in Spanish).
The work reconstructs the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his wife, Véra, and the decisive role she played in his writing: first reader, secretary, administrator and emotional refuge. Schiff portrays a cultured and fascinating woman in her own right, and shows how their 52-year marriage was the centre of a life devoted to literature.
The biography won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000; its original title is «Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)». The Spanish translation is by Miguel Martínez-Lage.
For the general public interested in biographies of writers and in the story of the couple who accompanied Vladimir Nabokov.
Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American writer. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.
