Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
Autore di Lincoln
Sull'Autore
Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. on October 3, 1925 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He did not go to college but attended St. Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1943. He enlisted in the Army, where he mostra altro became first mate on a freight supply ship in the Aleutian Islands. His first novel, Williwaw, was published in 1946 when he was twenty-one years old and working as an associate editor at the publishing company E. P. Dutton. The City and the Pillar was about a handsome, athletic young Virginia man who gradually discovers that he is homosexual, which caused controversy in the publishing world. The New York Times refused to advertise the novel and gave a negative review of it and future novels. He had such trouble getting subsequent novels reviewed that he turned to writing mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box and then gave up novel-writing altogether for a time. Once he moved to Hollywood, he wrote television dramas, screenplays, and plays. His films included I Accuse, Suddenly Last Summer with Tennessee Williams, Is Paris Burning? with Francis Ford Coppola, and Ben-Hur. His most successful play was The Best Man, which he also adapted into a film. He started writing novels again in the 1960's including Julian, Washington, D.C., Myra Breckenridge, Burr, Myron, 1876, Lincoln, Hollywood, Live From Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal, and The Golden Age. He also published two collections of essays entitled The Second American Revolution, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1982 and United States: Essays 1952-1992. In 2009, he received the National Book Awards lifetime achievement award. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 31, 2012 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Gore Vidal en octobre 2006, à Los Angeles
Serie
Opere di Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and an Afterword (1965) 63 copie
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America (2014) — Autore — 27 copie
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Preface by Gore Vidal) (1966) — Contributor & Introduction — 6 copie
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 copie
Three Plays 2 copie
Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e altre tristi verita, Democrazia tradita (2005) 2 copie
Novels of Gore Vidal 2 copie
Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes) (Easton Press) (1990) 2 copie
කල්කි 1 copia
On Our Own Now — Autore — 1 copia
À Procura do Rei 1 copia
ගැලවුම්කාර ඉසිවරයා 1 copia
The End of Liberty 1 copia
Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 copia
Three stratagems {short story} 1 copia
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 copia
Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 copia
The Art of Fiction 1 copia
Paolo 1 copia
Il mondo di Watergate 1 copia
The Robin {short story} 1 copia
The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 copia
The Civil War 1 copia
Lincoln T3 1 copia
Mord i femte positionen 1 copia
Opere correlate
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 172 copie
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Collaboratore — 133 copie
The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (2000) — Prefazione — 68 copie
What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election (2005) — Introduzione — 46 copie
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 copie
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Vidal, Gore
- Nome legale
- Vidal, Eugene Luther
- Altri nomi
- Box, Edgard
- Data di nascita
- 1925-10-03
- Data di morte
- 2012-07-31
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery, Washington, D.C., Amerika
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA, New York
- Luogo di nascita
- West Point, New York, Orange, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Amerika
- Causa della morte
- pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Istruzione
- Phyllips Exeter Academy
- Attività lavorative
- scrittore sceneggiatore saggista
- Relazioni
- Vidal, Eugene (padre)
Gore, Nina (madre)
Gore, Thomas P. (nonno materno)
Trimble, Jimmy (amante)
Austen, Howard (compagno di vita)
Carter, Jimmy (cugino) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Honorary President of the American Humanist Association (2009) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Awards - Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2009)
Utenti
Discussioni
The City and the Pillar in Combiners! (Giugno 2022)
Dreams of President Abe Lincoln in Dreamers (Febbraio 2017)
Gore Vidal, 86, RIP in Book talk (Agosto 2012)
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (4)
Hidden Classics (1)
Founding Father (1)
1990s (1)
Kink Classics (1)
1970s (2)
1940s (1)
1980s (1)
Books (1)
discontinued (1)
All Things Oz (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 147
- Opere correlate
- 60
- Utenti
- 28,348
- Popolarità
- #712
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 460
- ISBN
- 794
- Lingue
- 23
- Preferito da
- 118
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