Boyd, Brian, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, Princeton University Press, 1991.

This critically acclaimed and exhaustive critical biography is the follow-up to Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years begins in 1940, when Nabokov and his wife left France for the United States.

Nabokov, Vladimir, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

This mammoth volume contains all of Nabokov's stories as well as an introduction by his son, Dmitri.

Naumann, Maria Turkevich, Blue Evenings in Berlin: Nabokov's Short Stories of the 1920s, New York University Press, 1978.

While this book does not specifically treat "That in Aleppo Once . . .," Naumann does offer many ideas about Nabokov's expatriation and how it is treated in his early short stories.

Schiff, Stacy, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), Random House, 1999.

This biography of Nabokov's wife explores the depths to which she was involved in her husband's creative and business affairs...