Editing Vladimir Nabokov (section)

===United States===
[[File:957 East State St Ithaca NY NabokovHome1953.jpg|thumb|upright=1|957 East State Street, [[Ithaca, New York]], where Nabokov lived with his family while teaching at [[Cornell University]]]]

====New York City (1940–1941)====
The Nabokovs settled in [[Manhattan]], and Vladimir began volunteer work as an [[entomologist]] at the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nabokov's Type: Lysandra cormion|url=http://www-v1.amnh.org/news/tag/vladimir-nabokov/|access-date=18 April 2013}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

====Wellesley College (1941–1948)====
Nabokov joined the staff of [[Wellesley College]] in 1941 as resident lecturer in [[comparative literature]]. The position, created specifically for him, provided an income and free time to write creatively and pursue his [[lepidoptery]]. Nabokov is remembered as the founder of Wellesley's Russian department. The Nabokovs resided in [[Wellesley, Massachusetts]], during the 1941–42 academic year. In September 1942, they moved to nearby [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], where they lived until June 1948. Following a lecture tour through the United States, Nabokov returned to Wellesley for the 1944–45 academic year as a lecturer in Russian. In 1945, he became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. He served through the 1947–48 term as Wellesley's one-man Russian department, offering courses in Russian language and literature. His classes were popular, due as much to his unique teaching style as to the wartime interest in all things Russian.{{citation needed|date=November 2013}} At the same time he was the de facto  curator of lepidoptery at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Museum of Comparative Zoology]].<ref>{{cite news| title= Nabokov, Scientist| work= Natural History| date= July 1999}}</ref>

====Cornell University (1948–1959)====
After being encouraged by [[Morris Bishop]], Nabokov left Wellesley in 1948 to teach Russian and European literature at [[Cornell University]], where he taught until 1959. Among his students at Cornell was future [[U.S. Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Justice]] [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], who later identified Nabokov as a major influence on her development as a writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lawprose.org/interviews/supreme-court.php?vid=ginsburg_part_1&vidtitle=Associate_Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_Part_1|title=Supreme Court Interviews|website=LawProse.org|access-date=5 December 2015|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702105957/http://www.lawprose.org/interviews/supreme-court.php?vid=ginsburg_part_1&vidtitle=Associate_Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_Part_1|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Nabokov wrote ''[[Lolita]]'' while traveling on the butterfly-collection trips in the western U.S. that he undertook every summer. Véra acted as "secretary, typist, editor, proofreader, translator and bibliographer; his agent, business manager, legal counsel and chauffeur; his research assistant, teaching assistant and professorial understudy"; when Nabokov attempted to burn unfinished drafts of ''Lolita'', Véra stopped him. He called her the best-humored woman he had ever known.<ref name="MA"/><ref>{{cite news| work= The New York Times| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/11/obituaries/vera-nabokov-89-wife-muse-and-agent.html |title= Vera Nabokov, 89, Wife, Muse and Agent| date= 11 April 1991}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first= Brian |last= Boyd| title= Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years| pages= 170, 601}}</ref>

In June 1953, Nabokov and his family went to [[Ashland, Oregon]]. There he finished ''Lolita'' and began writing the novel ''[[Pnin (novel)|Pnin]]''. He roamed the nearby mountains looking for butterflies, and wrote a poem called "Lines Written in Oregon". On 1 October 1953, he and his family returned to Ithaca, where he later taught the young writer [[Thomas Pynchon]].<ref name="medfordmail">{{cite news| url-status= dead| url= http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/99/sept99/92299n2.htm |title= Snapshot: Nabokov's Retreat| place= Ashland, Oregon | work= [[Mail Tribune]] (Medford, Oregon)| date= 5 November 2006| page= 2 |first= Dani| last= Dodge |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101202051944/http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/99/sept99/92299n2.htm |archive-date= 2 December 2010 | access-date= 9 August 2018}}</ref>