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) — biografía de Lincoln … (más)

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Obras de Gore Vidal

Lincoln 2,403 copias, 38 reseñas

Burr 2,184 copias, 50 reseñas

Juliano, el Apóstata 1,695 copias, 31 reseñas

Creación 1,433 copias, 23 reseñas

Empire 1,179 copias, 11 reseñas

1876 1,170 copias, 16 reseñas

Una memoria 1,009 copias, 14 reseñas

Myra Breckinridge 885 copias, 24 reseñas

Washington, D. C 824 copias, 10 reseñas

Hollywood : una novela de los años veinte 770 copias, 9 reseñas

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace 690 copias, 7 reseñas

The Golden Age 684 copias, 10 reseñas

United States: Essays 1952-1992 670 copias, 8 reseñas

En directo desde el Gólgota 618 copias, 14 reseñas

La Invención de una nación : Washington, Adams y Jefferson 605 copias, 12 reseñas

Kalki 581 copias, 10 reseñas

The City and the Pillar {revised} 548 copias, 9 reseñas

Mesías 456 copias, 8 reseñas

Myra Breckinridge [and] Myron 441 copias, 4 reseñas

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 440 copias, 5 reseñas

Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta 433 copias, 4 reseñas

The Smithsonian Institution 414 copias, 3 reseñas

El último imperio : ensayos 1992-2001 376 copias, 4 reseñas

Duluth 371 copias, 8 reseñas

Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia 312 copias, 3 reseñas

Myron 242 copias, 6 reseñas

The Judgment of Paris 217 copias, 6 reseñas

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal 189 copias, 3 reseñas

The City and the Pillar {original} 183 copias, 1 reseña

En busca del rey 178 copias, 3 reseñas

At Home: Essays 1982-1988 165 copias, 1 reseña

Williwaw 163 copias, 7 reseñas

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire 148 copias, 1 reseña

Two Sisters 146 copias, 3 reseñas

Muerte en la quinta posición (Autor) 144 copias, 4 reseñas

Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976) 142 copias, 2 reseñas

Sexualmente hablando 137 copias, 2 reseñas

A Thirsty Evil 131 copias, 2 reseñas

Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-1982 130 copias, 3 reseñas

La Ciudad y el pilar de sal y siete relatos de juventud (Autor) 129 copias, 6 reseñas

Screening History 122 copias, 1 reseña

The Impossible H. L. Mencken (Prefacio) 117 copias

Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 114 copias, 2 reseñas

Thieves Fall Out (Hard Case Crime) 105 copias, 7 reseñas

Muerte improvisada / Edgar Box (Gore Vidal); [traducción de María… 103 copias, 3 reseñas

Homage To Daniel Shays: Collected Essays 101 copias, 5 reseñas

Death Before Bedtime 98 copias, 4 reseñas

Vidal in Venice 89 copias

The Essential Gore Vidal 84 copias

The Best Man [Play] 82 copias, 2 reseñas

Visit to a Small Planet 80 copias, 2 reseñas

The City and the Pillar [revised and unexpurgated] 80 copias, 1 reseña

Dark Green, Bright Red 77 copias, 2 reseñas

Deadly Sins (Contribuidor) 77 copias

Julian / Williwaw / The Judgement of Paris / Messiah / The City and the… 71 copias, 1 reseña

An Evening with Richard Nixon 66 copias, 1 reseña

The American Presidency 64 copias

Virgin Islands 64 copias

Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 62 copias, 1 reseña

Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare 59 copias, 1 reseña

Suddenly Last Summer [DVD] [2002] (Screenwriter) 59 copias, 4 reseñas

Views from a Window: Conversations With Gore Vidal 58 copias

The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and… 57 copias

In a Yellow Wood 52 copias, 1 reseña

Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box 50 copias

Best Television Plays 41 copias, 1 reseña

The Season of Comfort 35 copias

Sex, Death, and Money 34 copias

I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener 32 copias

La Fine Della Liberta: Verso Un Nuovo Totalitarismo? 31 copias

A View from the Diners Club 28 copias

Reflections upon a sinking ship 27 copias, 1 reseña

Rocking the boat 27 copias, 1 reseña

Williwaw / A Thirsty Evil / Julian 18 copias

Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on… (Autor) 17 copias

Myra Breckinridge (Screenwriter) 17 copias

Lincoln [1988 TV mini series] (Writer) 16 copias

Conversations with Gore Vidal (Literary Conversations Series) 16 copias, 2 reseñas

Myra Breckinridge / Myron / Kalki / Duluth 12 copias

Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation of Romulas the Great (Autor) 9 copias

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

Cry Shame! 8 copias

Creación II 7 copias

The Sicilian [1987 film] (Writer) 7 copias

Creación I 7 copias

Dangerous Voyage 6 copias

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

Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts 5 copias

L'edat d'or : I 5 copias

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

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

Ensayos 1952-2001 4 copias

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

Great American Families 4 copias

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

Judgement of Paris Revised & Abridged By the Author 3 copias

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

The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century 3 copias

The City and the Pillar, Revised Edition 3 copias

The Best TV Plays 2 copias

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

Democrazia tradita 6-1 2 copias

Das ist nicht Amerika!: Essays 2 copias

Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should Be Done? 2 copias

Three Plays 2 copias

Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e… 2 copias

The End of Liberty 1 copia

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

Sex is Politics - and Vice Versa 1 copia

A idade do ouro: romance 1 copia

Hükümdar 1 copia

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

Julian - Vidal Gore [KSIÄĹťKA] 1 copia

La menagerie des hommes illustres (French Edition) 1 copia

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

Un garçon près de la rivière 1 copia

The Art of Fiction 1 copia

Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 copia

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

Novel, A 1 copia

Paolo 1 copia

Eugene Luther Vidal 1 copia

Se controlli i media è fatta 1 copia, 1 reseña

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

Naiset kirjastossa 1 copia

Il mondo di Watergate 1 copia

The Civil War 1 copia

Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 copia

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

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

Stworzenie świata 1 copia

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

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

Three stratagems {short story} 1 copia, 1 reseña

The Robin {short story} 1 copia, 1 reseña

A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 copia

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

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

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Tarzán de los monos (Introducción, algunas ediciones) 4,395 copias, 108 reseñas

La copa dorada (Prefacio, algunas ediciones; Introducción, algunas ediciones) 2,494 copias, 23 reseñas

The Art of the Personal Essay (Contribuidor) 1,232 copias, 8 reseñas

Collected Stories (Introducción, algunas ediciones) 465 copias, 3 reseñas

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contribuidor) 308 copias

Gattaca [Blu-ray] (Actor) 297 copias, 8 reseñas

The Best American Essays 2002 (Contribuidor) 208 copias, 1 reseña

Una vida para el arte : confesiones de una mujer que amó el arte y… (Prefacio, algunas ediciones) 199 copias, 2 reseñas

Atheism: A Reader (Contribuidor) 173 copias, 3 reseñas

Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (Prefacio, algunas ediciones) 164 copias, 3 reseñas

Selected Speeches and Writings (Introducción) 158 copias

The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (Contribuidor) 150 copias, 2 reseñas

XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (Introducción) 149 copias

Granta 32: History (Contribuidor) 140 copias, 2 reseñas

The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to… (Contribuidor) 139 copias, 1 reseña

Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each… (Contribuidor) 128 copias, 1 reseña

The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (Contribuidor) 124 copias, 1 reseña

The Best American Essays 1992 (Contribuidor) 120 copias

The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (Contribuidor) 114 copias

The Christopher Street reader (Contribuidor) 112 copias

Confessions of an Art Addict (Prefacio, algunas ediciones) 109 copias, 1 reseña

Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Prefacio) 106 copias, 1 reseña

The Celluloid Closet [1995 film] 82 copias, 4 reseñas

Calígula [Videoenregistrament] = Caligula (Screenwriter) 81 copias, 1 reseña

Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Introducción) 74 copias, 1 reseña

India in Mind (Contribuidor) 71 copias, 2 reseñas

All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections & Aphorisms (Prefacio, algunas ediciones) 64 copias, 1 reseña

The Best American Essays 1986 (Contribuidor) 63 copias, 1 reseña

Roma [1972 film] 60 copias, 1 reseña

The Edith Wharton omnibus (Introducción) 59 copias, 3 reseñas

Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 1 (Interviewee) 58 copias

10 Short Plays (Contribuidor) 54 copias

Why We Fight [2005 film] (Contribuidor) 48 copias, 2 reseñas

With Honors [1994 film] (Actor) 47 copias

The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (Contribuidor) 46 copias

What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential… (Introducción) 43 copias

Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (Contribuidor) 37 copias, 1 reseña

The Signet Book of Short Plays (Contribuidor) 27 copias

Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of… (Contribuidor) 27 copias, 1 reseña

Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (Contribuidor) 23 copias, 1 reseña

Middle Sexes (Narrador) 21 copias, 1 reseña

Bob Roberts [1992 film] 21 copias

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships… (Contribuidor) 18 copias

A Bush & Botox World (Prefacio) 17 copias

The Left Handed Gun [1958 film] (Original play) 16 copias

New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (Contribuidor) 12 copias

Kennedys: Stories of Life and Death from an American Family (Contribuidor) 12 copias

New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (Contribuidor) 11 copias

Against the Beast: An Anti-Imperialist Reader (Introducción) 10 copias

Film Scripts Four: Darling, a Hard Days Night, the Best Man (Contribuidor) 5 copias

Best of Enemies [2015 film] (Actor) 2 copias

What Makes a Man G.I.B.* *Good in Bed (Epílogo) 2 copias

Short Plays for Reading and Acting (Contribuidor) 1 copia

Playboy Magazine ~ December 1987 (Brigitte Nielsen) (Interview) 1 copia

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Gore Vidal

On Point, Domingo, marzo 2, 2003 en 0am

Gore Vidal opina sobre Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta.

Lucid, insightful and razor-sharp, Gore Vidal has been taking on the American Empire for nearly half a century. As war with Iraq looms, the legendary author and essayist is in high dudgeon. A night with the prolific, ever-engaging, and right now angry, Gore Vidal. (Shortride)

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Studio 360, Viernes, octubre 30, 2009 en 0am

Gore Vidal opina sobre Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare .

If anyone's life is worth recounting, it's Gore Vidal's. The celebrated writer not only made his mark on literature over the past six decades, he also had a front row seat to history. His father romanced Amelia Earhart; he feuded with Eleanor Roosevelt and William F. Buckley among many others; and he went shooting with John F. Kennedy. Kurt finds out that despite working on this chronicle of his life, Gore Vidal isn't thinking about posterity. (Shortride)… (más)

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