Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal at the Union Square Barnes & Noble to be interviewed by Leonard Lopate to discuss his life and his photographic memoir, Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by David Shankbone

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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 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) — biografia da Lincoln … (altro)

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Lincoln 2,446 copie, 40 recensioni

BURR 2,229 copie, 50 recensioni

Giuliano 1,745 copie, 33 recensioni

Creazione: [romanzo] 1,475 copie, 23 recensioni

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Il candidato 1,199 copie, 16 recensioni

Palimpsest: A Memoir 1,029 copie, 14 recensioni

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Il giudizio di Paride 216 copie, 6 recensioni

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal 193 copie, 3 recensioni

La statua di sale 189 copie, 1 recensione

A Search for the King 182 copie, 3 recensioni

At Home: Essays 1982-1988 169 copie, 1 recensione

Williwaw 164 copie, 7 recensioni

Two Sisters 148 copie, 3 recensioni

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire 148 copie, 1 recensione

Le parole e i fatti 145 copie, 2 recensioni

Death in the Fifth Position (Autore) 143 copie, 4 recensioni

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A Thirsty Evil 133 copie, 2 recensioni

Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 130 copie, 3 recensioni

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Death Likes It Hot 104 copie, 3 recensioni

Homage To Daniel Shays: Collected Essays 102 copie, 6 recensioni

Death Before Bedtime 98 copie, 4 recensioni

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The Best Man [Play] 85 copie, 2 recensioni

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Virgin Islands 65 copie

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Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 62 copie, 1 recensione

Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare 61 copie, 1 recensione

The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and… 61 copie

Views from a Window: Conversations With Gore Vidal 58 copie

Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box 53 copie

In a Yellow Wood 52 copie, 1 recensione

Best Television Plays 43 copie, 1 recensione

The Season of Comfort 36 copie

Sex, Death, and Money 35 copie

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener 33 copie

La fine della liberta: verso un nuovo totalitarismo? 31 copie

A View from the Diners Club 29 copie

Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship: Essays 28 copie, 1 recensione

Rocking the boat 27 copie, 1 recensione

Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on… (Autore) 20 copie

Myra Breckinridge [1970 film] (Screenwriter) 20 copie

Williwaw / A Thirsty Evil / Julian 19 copie

Lincoln [1988 TV mini series] (Writer) 17 copie

Conversations with Gore Vidal (Literary Conversations Series) 16 copie, 2 recensioni

The Sicilian [1987 film] (Writer) 15 copie

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Creación II 10 copie

Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation of Romulas the Great (Autore) 9 copie

Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005 8 copie

Creación I 8 copie

Cry Shame! 8 copie

Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by… (Contributor & Introduction) 6 copie

Dangerous Voyage 6 copie

L'edat d'or : I 5 copie

Ensayos 1952-2001 5 copie

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays 1976 - 1982 5 copie

Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts 5 copie

L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 copie

Il canarino e la miniera. Saggi letterari 1956 - 2000 4 copie

Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done? 4 copie

Great American Families 4 copie

The Best Man [1964 film] (Screenwriter) 4 copie

A Thirsty Evil, Including On Pornography--an Essay 3 copie

Judgement of Paris Revised & Abridged By the Author 3 copie

The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century 3 copie

The Best TV Plays 2 copie

Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes)… 2 copie

Democrazia tradita: discorso sullo stato dell'Unione 2004 e altri… 2 copie

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Das ist nicht Amerika!: Essays 2 copie

Hükümdar 1 copia

De Fato E De Ficção, Ensaios Contra A Corrente 1 copia

Novels of Gore Vidal � � � � � � � � � 1 copia

Sex is Politics - and Vice Versa 1 copia

Lincoln T3 1 copia

Die ungeliebte Leiche | The Blessing Way | Death Likes It Hot 1 copia

Nie oglądaj się w stronę Sodomy 1 copia

Rare Gore Vidal MESSIAH First Edition 1954 -E.P. Dutton 1 copia

Το αγόρι πλάι στο ποτάμι 1 copia, 1 recensione

The End of Liberty 1 copia

Eugene Luther Vidal 1 copia

Dawn Powell: una scrittrice americana (in The Golden Spur) 1 copia

The Art of Fiction 1 copia

Novel, A 1 copia

Paolo 1 copia

Naiset kirjastossa 1 copia

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Se controlli i media è fatta 1 copia, 1 recensione

Epistle to the New Age (in Granta: History - BUFORD) 1 copia

Lincoln: A Novel - Part 1 of 2 1 copia

Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 copia

Lincoln: A Novel - Part 2 of 2 1 copia

Il mondo di Watergate 1 copia

Three stratagems {short story} 1 copia, 1 recensione

Four separate Historical Novels of America: Burr, Empire, Lincoln, 1876. 1 copia

The Civil War 1 copia

E domani ancora guerra: la crisi dell'impero USA 1 copia

Stworzenie świata 1 copia

Patria e imperio: ensayos politicos (Los Libros de Sisifo) (Spanish… 1 copia

Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 copia

The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 copia, 1 recensione

The Robin {short story} 1 copia, 1 recensione

A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 copia

The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 copia, 1 recensione

Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 copia, 1 recensione

La menagerie des hommes illustres (French Edition) 1 copia

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