Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
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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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: 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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The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and an Afterword (1965) 63 kappaletta
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America (2014) — Tekijä — 27 kappaletta
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Preface by Gore Vidal) (1966) — Contributor & Introduction — 6 kappaletta
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 kappaletta
Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes) (Easton Press) (1990) 2 kappaletta
Three Plays 2 kappaletta
Novels of Gore Vidal 2 kappaletta
Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e altre tristi verita, Democrazia tradita (2005) 2 kappaletta
The Art of Fiction 1 kappale
Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 kappale
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 kappale
Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 kappale
The End of Liberty 1 kappale
ගැලවුම්කාර ඉසිවරයා 1 kappale
À Procura do Rei 1 kappale
On Our Own Now — Tekijä — 1 kappale
කල්කි 1 kappale
Three stratagems {short story} 1 kappale
The Civil War 1 kappale
Due sorelle 1 kappale
Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 kappale
The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 kappale
Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 kappale
The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 kappale
A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 kappale
The Robin {short story} 1 kappale
Il mondo di Watergate 1 kappale
Lincoln T3 1 kappale
Paolo 1 kappale
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 17] 1 kappale
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 46] 1 kappale
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 47] 1 kappale
Mord i femte positionen 1 kappale
Associated Works
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1901) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 221 kappaletta
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 172 kappaletta
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Avustaja — 153 kappaletta
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Avustaja — 132 kappaletta
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994) — Esipuhe — 128 kappaletta
The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (2000) — Esipuhe — 67 kappaletta
All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections & Aphorisms (1933) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 67 kappaletta
What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election (2005) — Johdanto — 46 kappaletta
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 kappaletta
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Vidal, Gore
- Virallinen nimi
- Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore
- Muut nimet
- Box, Edgar
Kay, Cameron
Everard, Katherine - Syntymäaika
- 1925-10-03
- Kuolinaika
- 2012-07-31
- Hautapaikka
- Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery, Washington, D.C., Amerika
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Amerika
- Syntymäpaikka
- West Point, New York, Amerika
- Kuolinpaikka
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Amerika
- Kuolinsyy
- pneumonia
- Asuinpaikat
- West Point, New York, Amerika
Washington, D.C., Amerika
Ravello, Italië
Los Angeles, Californië, Amerika - Koulutus
- Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., Amerika
St. Albans, Washington, D.C., Amerika
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, Amerika - Ammatit
- Auteur
Scenarioschrijver
Politiek activist
Politiek analist
Acteur
Toneelschrijver (näytä kaikki 7)
Essayist - Suhteet
- Carter, Jimmy (Neef)
- Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Honorary President of the American Humanist Association (2009) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- National Book Awards - Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2009)
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The City and the Pillar, Combiners! (kesäkuu 2022)
Dreams of President Abe Lincoln, Dreamers (helmikuu 2017)
Gore Vidal, 86, RIP, Book talk (elokuu 2012)
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