"Brian Boyd" is known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on Literary Darwinism/literature and evolution. He is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Boyd emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1957.

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No other photographer had such immediate and intimate access to Nabokov over so many years, ... Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years.

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Many of the photographs are already famous. Others, never published before, promise to become no less so.

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He would do things like travel on the buses around Ithaca and record phrases, in a little notebook, from young girls that he heard coming back from school.

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