Did A Real-Life Kidnapping Inspire Nabokov's 'Lolita'?

Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita offers a compelling argument that Nabokov's 1955 novel had its roots in the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner — despite the author's claim to the contrary.

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