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including… the 1955 execution: Camden Courier-Post , May 4, 1955, p 1.

Then came his next career move: Obituary of Mitchell Cohen, Camden Courier-Post , January 1991.

Palese eventually acquiesced: Obituary of Rocco Palese, Camden Courier-Post , February 27, 1987, p. 19.

Cohen served three years: Obituary of Mitchell Cohen , Asbury Park Press , January 9, 1991, p. 8.

Véra Nabokov continued: Page-a-Day Diary, 1958, Berg.

went out to dinner at Cafe Chambord: The account largely draws from Véra Nabokov’s November 26, 1958, entry in ibid.

unduly preoccupied with a Time magazine article: “The Lolita Case,” Time , November 17, 1958.

unbylined but written by… Joyce Haber: Haber worked at Time as a researcher and reporter from 1958 through 1966. While Minton did not comment on whether he had a relationship with Haber, a former colleague recognized the writing as Haber’s.

Comedians turned Lolita into late-night fodder: VNAY , p. 375.

Another bizarre stunt: Ibid., pp. 415–416.

“by nature I am no dramatist”: Preface to Lolita: A Screenplay , p. ix.

changed his mind about adapting Lolita : Letter from Nabokov to Morris Bishop , Selected Letters: 1940–1977 , p. 309.

“a graceful ingenue but not my idea”: Nabokov, “On a Book Entitled Lolita,” Novels, 1955–1962 , p. 672.

“I didn’t have to play Lolita”: Interview in the New York Times , 1971.

European newspapers: Manuscript box, miscellaneous clippings, 1960, Berg.

“a first-rate film with magnificent actors”: VNAY , p. 466.

gave his approval for the musical: Ibid., p. 583.

“I think he’s crude”: Interview with Nabokov by Robert Hughes, WNET, September 2, 1965, reprinted in Nabokov , Strong Opinions .

The irritation is evident: Interview with Nabokov, BBC, July 1962, reprinted in Nabokov , Strong Opinions , p. 15.

He denied Humbert Humbert: Paris Review , “The Art of Fiction No. 40,” 1967.

After one stern denial: BBC interview, reprinted in Strong Opinions , p. 17.

“with crooning sounds and fancy endearments”: Nabokov , Speak, Memory , p. 49.

“The desperate truth of Lolita ’s story”: Nafisi , Reading Lolita in Tehran , p. 33.

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accidents. See car accidents

Albara, Ella, 35. See also Horner, Ella (mother)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 54

Amis, Martin, 46

Anchor Review, excerpts of Lolita in, 212, 242

anime, 249

“Annabel Lee” (Poe), 54

Annibale, Emma, 162. See also DiRenzo, Emma

The Annotated Lolita (Nabokov & Appel), 219n, 226

Appel, Alfred, Jr., 54, 219n, 226

Atlantic City (NJ), 19–20, 22–26, 25 , 39–40, 138

Auld, Howard, 79–80

Baker, Edward John, 171

background, 170–172

car accident involving, 183–187

civil suits against, 188

life after Sally’s death, 238

on Sally, 183

Baker, Edward, Jr., 238

Baltimore (MD), 83–84, 86–91, 129

Belvedere Hotel (Baltimore), 88

Bend Sinister (Nabokov), 28

Benson, Jacob, 174, 183–184, 188

Berle, Milton, 244

Berry, Amanda, 86

Bishop, Morris, 29, 203, 245

Bishop Dunne Catholic School, 113

Bowen, Oliver, 60

Boyd, Brian, 9–10, 226–227

Brigantine Beach (NJ), 21–23, 39–40

Brottman, Mikita, 6–7

Bruel, Andree, 102

Burkett, Arthur “Otto,” 235–236

Burrough Junior High, 158, 162

butterfly-hunting, 27, 29, 45 , 103–105, 165–167, 166 , 204, 214–215

Buxbaum, Richard, 102–105

Cahill, William, 139–141, 144

Cambridge (MA)

Lolita’s setting and, 105–106

Nabokov academic career in, 27–28, 29, 166

Camden (NJ). See also Courier-Post (Camden)

decline of, 94, 100

Dworecki case, 76–79

Forstein case and, 70–71

La Salle’s extradition to, 135–136, 138–139, 143–145, 189–190

McDade case, 79–81

mid-century optimism in, 12, 17–18, 41, 93–94

mid-century teen-age life in, 169–170

Sally’s encounters with La Salle in, 15–17, 65

as Sally’s hometown, 2, 18, 36

Sally’s return to, 139–142

statutory rape case, 61–64

“Walk of Death” massacre, 94–100

Camera Obscura (Nabokov), 48–49. See also Laughter in the Dark

Cape May County Gazette, on Wildwood car accident, 187

Caprioni, Dominick, 188

captivity narratives, 84–87, 115–116, 122–123

car accidents

Baker’s (Edward, Jr.), 238

G. Edward Grammar case, 200–202

La Salle’s hit-and-run, 60

in Lolita , 108, 200–203, 220

Pfeffer family’s, 21–24

Sally’s death and, 173–175, 183–188, 221, 257

Carroll, Lewis, 54

Carroll, Thomas, 61

Castro, Ariel, 85–86

Catholic schools, 89–92, 113, 149

Chiemingo, Diana. See Panaro, Diana

Child Pornography Prevention Act (1996), 250

Clara S. Burrough Junior High, 158, 162

Cleveland three abduction case, 85–86

Cohen, Charles, 96–97, 100

Cohen, Maurice, 96

Cohen, Mitchell, 139

advice for Sally and Ella, 148–149, 159

background, 73–75

on death penalty, 81

La Salle’s extradition, 135–136, 138–139, 143–144

La Salle’s guilty plea, 144–146, 147, 190, 192

La Salle’s kidnapping charges, 111

La Salle’s statutory rape case, 63

life after Sally’s death, 239

murder cases prosecuted by, 75, 78–80

Sally’s return home with, 139–141

“Walk of Death,” 98–100

Cohen, Rose, 96–97

Conclusive Evidence (Nabokov), 28, 102, 151–152. See Speak, Memory

connections to Lolita . See real-life connections to Lolita

copyright laws, 210, 213–215

Cornellous (Mother Superior), 90

Cornell University

Nabokov’s academic career at, 8, 29, 101–102, 105, 165–166, 203, 205–206

Nabokov’s leave of absence from, 214, 216

Courier-Post (Camden)

on car accident, 187

on Cohen, M., 41

on La Salle’s arrest, 136–138

on La Salle’s extradition, 137

on Sally’s encounter with Pfeffer family, 22

on Sally’s rescue, 131, 254

on search for Sally, 39

on “Walk of Death” massacre, 98

Covici, Pascal, 208

cross-country trips

of La Salle and Sally, 86–88, 112, 121–123, 138

in Lolita , 12, 28, 154, 178, 202, 219

of Nabokov family, 28–29, 102–105, 165–168, 177, 204–205, 214–216, 227–228

Daiches, David, 105

Dallas (TX)

Janisch family in, 117–118, 121

Sally’s captivity in, 111–116, 118–123, 129, 137, 192–194

Dar (Nabokov), 49–50

Dare, David, 59–60

Dare, Dorothy, 58–65, 145, 192, 196–197

Day, Alvin, 96

The Deer Park (Mailer), 211

Dejesus, Gina, 86

Dietrich, Marlene, 106, 108

DiRenzo, Emma, 17, 162. See also Annibale, Emma

Dolinin, Alexander, 154, 178–179, 181, 218, 254

Doran, Larry, 99

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 203

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 203