I'm curious too. Vladimir Nabokov's family came to America in 1940. They were fleeing the the advancing German troops. "In June 1953 Nabokov and his family w

I'm curious too. Vladimir Nabokov's family came to America in 1940. They were fleeing the the advancing German troops. "In June 1953 Nabokov and his family went to Ashland, Oregon. There he finished Lolita and began writing the novel Pnin." I guess he's considered a Russian and American author? Still doesn't sound right, but I'm definitely not the one to ask.