Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir NabokovMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Such a great combination; a talented writer reviews his own rich life of an idle childhood, success in literature, lepidoptery, chess problem crafting, affairs, Bolshevist-initiated exile. However, while this work first published in 1951 was "assiduously revised" in 1966, the core content predates publishing of his works like Lolita and it feels like Part 1 of necessarily greater autobiography with insufficient insight into his writing craft and genesis of his main works.
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