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===Literary media=== Evansville is featured in a section of [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s 1955 novel ''[[Lolita]]'', as well as [[Walker Percy]]'s 1962 novel ''[[The Moviegoer]]'', and [[Robert Silverberg]]'s 1969 science fiction novel ''[[To Live Again (novel)|To Live Again]]''. Evansville is the primary location in the historical fiction novel, ''Invitation to Valhalla'' by Mike Whicker, published in 2004. The novel is based on the records of German spy Erika Lehmann's attempt to infiltrate the LST shipyards during WWII. An Evansville couple is the focus of "Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story" by James Derk, based on a series of stories in the ''[[Evansville Courier & Press]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story|first=James|last=Derk|date=10 October 2006|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=1425957129}}</ref> Evansville, under the name Vansul, appears as a slapstick satire in the [[post-apocalyptic]] novel ''Light of the Ancient Sun''. Evansville is the hometown of the protagonist, Jack Crabb, in [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]]'s 1964 book ''[[Little Big Man (novel)|Little Big Man]]''. This is not mentioned in the 1970 cinematic adaption, ''[[Little Big Man (film)|Little Big Man]]''.
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