Vladimir Nabokov

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From: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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>According to Alfred Appel's NABOKOV'S DARK CINEMA, Nabokov met Billy Wilder
>during his time in Hollywood in the early '60s, at a dinner party hosted by
>David Selznick (see pp. 58; 236). Appel quotes Nabokov describing Wilder as
>"a worldly, cultivated man". This is all I've been able to find.
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>Barbara Wyllie
>SSEES/University College London
>bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk
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