Dec 29, 2009

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited | What Do I Read Next?

Martin Amis’s Experience: A Memoir (2000) is full of Nabokovian literary allusions and personal anecdotes. The son of writer Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis is a writer-celebrity of rock star proportions in England. Like Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Amis’s Experience: A Memoir contains an interesting index and photographs as well as elaborate word play.

Brian Boyd’s Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991) are thoroughly researched companion volumes that form a complete biography of the...