Brian Boyd

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Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov. An upcoming work, On the Origin of Stories, will be informed by Darwinian literary studies. Other forthcoming books include a critical study of William Shakespeare and a biography of the philosopher Karl Popper.

[edit] Major works

• Nabokov's Ada: The Place of Consciousness (1985)
• Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990)
• Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991)
• Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (1999)

[edit] External links

• Staff homepage
• Ada Online - Annotations to Nabokov's novel by Boyd.
• "Shade and Shape in Pale Fire" - A somewhat controversial essay on Nabokov's novel.
• A 2000 interview - Conducted by Thomas Bolt.