Aug 1, 2012 · Gore Vidal came from a generation of novelists whose fiction gave them a political platform
Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics
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—died July 31, 2012, Los Angeles, California) prolific American novelist and essayist who was as well known for
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North American Literatures Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following
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Gore Vidal seated in the present day Dining Room of Edgewater
Sometime in the late 1950s, that world-class gossip and occasional historian, John F
Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and brought up in Washington, D
There, in 1950, he bought Edgewater, an impressive Greek revival mansion
, residence of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, a senator from Oklahoma
október 1925, West Point, (1950) ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (veštba štátneho prevratu v Guatemale v 1954, pozri "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War) A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) pod pseudonymom Katherine Everard; Jay Parini, in his authorized biography, “Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal” (Doubleday), wants to give us the real Gore, but he keeps on falling for the pose
The film stars Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald and Rod
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (født 3
) je bio američki pisac, scenarista, esejista, poznat kao jedna od najkontroverznijih ličnosti na američkoj književnoj i političkoj sceni
In 1955, he founded National Review, the magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the mid-20th century United States
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Now 85, Vidal explains here why he had to secretly slum it in the paperbacks
He wrote and published more than 200 essays and 24 novels throughout his career The cover of the book shows Vidal alone in an empty movie theater, looking over his shoulder at the camera, while on-screen is a scene from Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, a teleplay he wrote in 1989 based on his 1955 drama for live TV