Biography & Memoir
Letters of Anton Chekhov
Harper and Row, 1973.
Letters Summer 1926. Pasternak. Tsvetayeva. Rilke
San Diego: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1985.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
Natalia Goncharova
Tate, 2019.
Only One Year
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
Twenty letters to a friend
New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
The extraordinary decade. Literary memoirs
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1968.
1920 Diary
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir
Basic Books, 2009.
The Italics Are Mine
New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 1992.
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
PublicAffairs, 2025.
Vladimir Nabokov. American years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Vladimir Nabokov. The Russian years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
The World I Left Behind: Pieces of a Past
Random House, 1995.
How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend
Thames & Hudson, 2023.
Solzhenitsyn
Stein and Day, 1972.
Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
The intimate life of the last tzarina
New York: L. MacVeagh, 1928.
Cold Spring in Russia
Ann Arbour, MI: Ardis, 1978.
Шура. Chura
New York: Carlton Press, 1988.
Two Lives, One Russia
Houghton Mifflin, 1988.