Vera Nabokov
Family Member
Wife and muse of the author Vladimir Nabokov. She aided her husband's career by editing and translating many of his their works.
She met her future husband through her father, who often played chess with Nabokov.
Her support kept her husband from tossing the manuscript of his most their novel, Lolita, into the fireplace.
Her marriage to Vladimir Nabokov lasted from 1925 to 1977 and produced one son.
Like Sophia Tolstaya, wife of Leo Tolstoy, Vera Nabokov inspired her husband to write many of his most their works.