Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
Autor(a) de Lincoln
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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
Séries
Obras por Gore Vidal
The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and an Afterword (1965) 63 exemplares
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America (2014) — Autor — 27 exemplares
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Preface by Gore Vidal) (1966) — Contributor & Introduction — 6 exemplares
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 exemplares
Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes) (Easton Press) (1990) 2 exemplares
Three Plays 2 exemplares
Novels of Gore Vidal 2 exemplares
Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e altre tristi verita, Democrazia tradita (2005) 2 exemplares
The Art of Fiction 1 exemplar
Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 exemplar
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 exemplar
Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 exemplar
The End of Liberty 1 exemplar
ගැලවුම්කාර ඉසිවරයා 1 exemplar
À Procura do Rei 1 exemplar
On Our Own Now — Autor — 1 exemplar
කල්කි 1 exemplar
Three stratagems {short story} 1 exemplar
The Civil War 1 exemplar
Due sorelle 1 exemplar
Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 exemplar
The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 exemplar
Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 exemplar
The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 exemplar
A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 exemplar
The Robin {short story} 1 exemplar
Il mondo di Watergate 1 exemplar
Lincoln T3 1 exemplar
Paolo 1 exemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 17] 1 exemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 46] 1 exemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 47] 1 exemplar
Mord i femte positionen 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1901) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 221 exemplares
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 172 exemplares
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994) — Prefácio — 128 exemplares
The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (2000) — Prefácio — 67 exemplares
All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections & Aphorisms (1933) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 67 exemplares
Angels on Toast / Wicked Pavilion / Golden Spur (1989) — Introdução, algumas edições — 54 exemplares
What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election (2005) — Introdução — 46 exemplares
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 exemplares
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Vidal, Gore
- Nome legal
- Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore
- Outros nomes
- Box, Edgar
Kay, Cameron
Everard, Katherine - Data de nascimento
- 1925-10-03
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-07-31
- Localização do túmulo
- Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery, Washington, D.C., Amerika
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Amerika
- Local de nascimento
- West Point, New York, Amerika
- Local de falecimento
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Amerika
- Causa da morte
- pneumonia
- Locais de residência
- West Point, New York, Amerika
Washington, D.C., Amerika
Ravello, Italië
Los Angeles, Californië, Amerika - Educação
- Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., Amerika
St. Albans, Washington, D.C., Amerika
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, Amerika - Ocupações
- Auteur
Scenarioschrijver
Politiek activist
Politiek analist
Acteur
Toneelschrijver (mostrar todos 7)
Essayist - Relações
- Carter, Jimmy (Neef)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Honorary President of the American Humanist Association (2009) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Book Awards - Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2009)
Membros
Discussions
The City and the Pillar em Combiners! (Junho 2022)
Dreams of President Abe Lincoln em Dreamers (Fevereiro 2017)
Gore Vidal, 86, RIP em Book talk (Agosto 2012)
Críticas
Listas
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1970s (2)
1940s (1)
1980s (1)
Books (1)
discontinued (1)
All Things Oz (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 151
- Also by
- 59
- Membros
- 28,193
- Popularidade
- #716
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 463
- ISBN
- 792
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 117