text: One of these author's characters receives an aquamarine bowl at a "house-heating" party where he is fired by Dr. Hagen.
full_question: One of these author's characters receives an aquamarine bowl at a "house-heating" party where he is fired by Dr. Hagen. A character is misled by a magazine that misprints "mountain" as "fountain" in a story about a woman's near-death experience in one of his novels, while another features a recurring motif in which a hotel where the main characters sleep together and another character's play are among the things called a variant of "The (*) Enchanted Hunter". This author who wrote about an employee of Waindell College in Pnin also created Charles Kinbote, who believes himself to be the King of Zembla and provides commentary on a 999-line poem by John Shade. For 10 points, name this author of Pale Fire who wrote about Humbert Humbert in Lolita.
first_sentence: One of these author's characters receives an aquamarine bowl at a "house-heating" party where he is fired by Dr. Hagen.
raw_answer: Vladimir Nabokov [or Vladimir Vladirmirovich Nabokov]