Gore Vidal
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007
[orig. Eugene Luther Vidal] (born Oct. 3, 1925, West Point, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. novelist, playwright, and essayist. Vidal began publishing his writings soon after his wartime army service. Though he wrote stage plays and television and film screenplays, he is best known for his irreverent and intellectually adroit novels. The City and the Pillar (1948) became notorious for its homoerotic subject matter. Myra Breckenridge (1968) was acclaimed for its wild satire. His other novels, many of them historical and most of them best-sellers, include Julian (1964), Washington, D.C. (1967), Burr (1974), 1876 (1976), and Lincoln (1984). He also published several essay collections and the memoir Palimpsest (1996). Known for his iconoclastically leftist political analyses, he twice ran unsuccessfully for Congressional office.
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; ... great civilization. SUAREZ: Gore Vidal on his book Palimpsest. The Book Club of the Air selection for August. Bumped by breaking news into early September, but who knows, maybe that gave you enough time to finish. Novelist Louis Auchincloss is with us from New ...
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Glorified Gore Vidal in 'Education'; Film paints pretty picture of iconoclastic writer's life.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(TELEVISION)
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MEMOIR Nigel Farndale marvels at gore vidal's undiminished gift for writing and feuding
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Vidal, Gore: Palimpseste, Memoires [Palimpsest, a Memoir].(Brief article)(Book review)
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; Vidal, Gore Palimpseste, Memoires [Palimpsest, a Memoir]. Gore Vidal. Translated from English (US) by Lydia Lakel. Paris: Ed. Galaade, 2006. 640 pp. Euro25. Ten years after its publication in America, Gore Vidal's Memoir appears in French. According to the author himself, it is not an
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