American critic and man of letters who helped connect the newly arrived Vladimir Nabokov to American magazines and publishers in the 1940s. Their close friendship broke publicly over Nabokov's deliberately literal translation of Eugene Onegin.
Corresponded with · 1913
Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson met at Princeton and corresponded for the rest of Fitzgerald's life; Fitzgerald called him his intellectual conscience. Wilson edited both posthumous volumes, The Last Tycoon in 1941 and The Crack-Up in 1945.
Corresponded with · 1940–1971
Edmund Wilson became Nabokov's closest American literary friend after they met in October 1940, connecting him to magazines and publishers. Their letters preserve affection, competition and disagreement until the friendship broke publicly over Wilson's 1965 attack on Nabokov's literal translation of Eugene Onegin. The correspondence was published in 1979 as The Nabokov–Wilson Letters.
Corresponded with · 1913
Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson met at Princeton and corresponded for the rest of Fitzgerald's life; Fitzgerald called him his intellectual conscience. Wilson edited both posthumous volumes, The Last Tycoon in 1941 and The Crack-Up in 1945.
Corresponded with · 1940–1971
Edmund Wilson became Nabokov's closest American literary friend after they met in October 1940, connecting him to magazines and publishers. Their letters preserve affection, competition and disagreement until the friendship broke publicly over Wilson's 1965 attack on Nabokov's literal translation of Eugene Onegin. The correspondence was published in 1979 as The Nabokov–Wilson Letters.