Dmitri Nabokov, Steward of Father’s Literary Legacy, Dies at 77

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Dmitri Nabokov, Steward of Father’s Literary Legacy, Dies at 77
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Published: February 25, 2012

Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, who tended to the legacy of his father with the posthumous publication of a volume of personal letters, an unpublished novella and an unfinished novel that his father had demanded be burned, died on Wednesday in Vevey, Switzerland. He was 77. Mr. Nabokov tried to counter a widely held perception that his father, Vladimir Nabokov, pictured, was cool and distant. Mr. Nabokov was hospitalized for a lung infection in January and never recovered, Andrew Wylie, the agent for the Nabokov estate, said.