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Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Vidal has ...
Jun 20, 2013 · Gore Vidal. June 20, 2013 issue. Gore Vidal (1925–2012) contributed nearly one hundred reviews, articles, and letters to The New York Review between 1963 and 2006. The following is an extract from his two-part article “The Ashes of Hollywood,” a review of the ten books on the New York Times fiction best-seller list of January 7, 1973.
Aug 1, 2012 · Gore Vidal was a literary juggernaut who wrote novels including 'Lincoln' and the satirical 'Myra Breckinridge,' and essays critics consider among the most elegant in the English language.
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Aug 4, 2015 · They came loaded for bear. William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, representing the political poles in America, sat in front of the ABC News cameras in 1968 and, though hired to discuss the events of ...
An Elitist Upbringing. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was born October 3, 1925, in West Point, New York, the son of Eugene Vidal, a professor at the United States Military academy, and Nina Gore Vidal. During Vidal's childhood, his family lived at the Washington, D.C., residence of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, a senator from Oklahoma.
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