Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most famous authors to transition from his mother tongue to English in the US, published his first 'foreign-language' novel, 'The Real Life of Sebastian Knight,' in 1941, as part of a series on American literature.

A simple pub scene in Vladimir Nabokov's novella 'A Guide to Berlin' is seen as a foreshadowing of his development into a modernist writer, suggesting the exiled Russian author found self-recognition there.