Another Earl of Oxford
Did Vladimir Nabokov steal Lolita? He’d have been 17 when Heinz von Eschwege’s short story appeared in print in 1916, and it would have been 23 years later, when he was 40, that Nabokov first attempted the tale, in “The Enchanter.” Another 16 years passed before story became novel, and with a history of nearly 40 years, I suppose “cryptomnesia” may be a valid explanation. (Source: Arts & Letters Daily.)