Gore Vidal
American writer (1925-2012)
Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer.[1]
Vidal was born at West Point, New York,[1] the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina Gore (1903-1978). He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly bisexual. He lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in 2003.[1] Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Bibliography
Essays and non-fiction
- Rocking the Boat (1963)
- Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
- Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
- Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
- Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
- Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
- The Second American Revolution (1983)
- Vidal In Venice (1985) ISBN 0-671-60691-3
- Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
- At Home (1988)
- A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
- Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
- Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
- United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6 — National Book Award
- Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0
- Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
- The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
- Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
- The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
- Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
- Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
- Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
- Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
- Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
- The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
- Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9
Plays
- Visit to a Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0-8222-1211-0
- The Best Man (1960)
- On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
- Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
- Weekend (1968)
- Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
- An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0
- On the March to the Sea (2005)
Novels
- Williwaw 1946 ISBN 0-226-85585-6
- In a Yellow Wood 1947
- The City and the Pillar 1948 ISBN 1-4000-3037-4
- The Season of Comfort 1949 ISBN 0-233-98971-4
- A Search for the King 1950 ISBN 0-345-25455-4
- Dark Green, Bright Red 1950 ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
- The Judgment of Paris 1952 ISBN 0-345-33458-2
- Messiah 1954 ISBN 0-14-118039-0
- A Thirsty Evil 1956 (short stories)
- Julian 1964 ISBN 0-375-72706-X
- Washington, D.C. 1967 ISBN 0-316-90257-8
- Myra Breckinridge 1968 ISBN 1-125-97948-8
- Two Sisters 1970 ISBN 0-434-82958-7
- Burr 1973 ISBN 0-375-70873-1
- Myron 1974 ISBN 0-586-04300-4
- 1876 1976 ISBN 0-375-70872-3
- Kalki 1978 ISBN 0-14-118037-4
- Creation 1981 ISBN 0-349-10475-1
- Duluth 1983 ISBN 0-394-52738-0
- Lincoln 1984 ISBN 0-375-70876-6
- Empire 1987 ISBN 0-375-70874-X
- Hollywood 1990 ISBN 0-375-70875-8
- Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal 1992 ISBN 0-14-023119-6
- The Smithsonian Institution 1998 ISBN 0-375-50121-5
- The Golden Age 2000 ISBN 0-375-72481-8
- Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 2006 (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story — Clouds and Eclipses — added)
Screenplays
- Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
- The Catered Affair (1956)
- I Accuse! (1958)
- The Scapegoat (1959)
- Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- The Best Man (1964)
- Is Paris Burning? (1966)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
- Caligula (1979)
- Dress Gray (1986)
- The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid (1989)
- Dimenticare Palermo (1989)
Works under pseudonyms
- A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as Katherine Everard
- Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
- Death Before Bedtime (1953) as Edgar Box
- Death in the Fifth Position (1952) as Edgar Box
- Death Likes It Hot (1954) as Edgar Box
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gore Vidal.
Other websites
- Gore Vidal on IMDb
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