Auckland Nabokov scholar says it's 'appalling' to find his name in Epstein files

Auckland Nabokov scholar says it's 'appalling' to find his name in Epstein files

By Nights of RNZ “ Lolita will never cease to shock,” wrote Brian Boyd in the introduction to his two-volume biography about Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.

'It's appalling' - the Auckland academic who appears in the Epstein files

Although there's no suggestion Brian Boyd was involved in any wrongdoing, in 2012 the Nabokov expert received an offer from convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to fund a book about the 1955 novel Lolita.