 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 | Gore Vidal (1925–2012)Includes the names: Edgar Box, Box Edgar, Gore Vida, Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal, Cameron Kay, Гор Видал, Katherine Everard, Edgar Vidal / Box, Gore Vidal, Editor ... (see complete list), Vidal's Gore., edited By Gore Vidal, edgar (Gore Vidal box, Gore Vidal and Others, Edgar Gore; Box Vidal, Gore; Gore Vidal Vidal, Edward Gore; Box Vidal, Edgar Box (Gore Vidal), Edgar Gore as Box Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Edgar Box (pseud. Gore Vidal), Gore writing as Edgar Box VIDAL, Goe Vidal (writing as Edgar Box), Gore Vidal; Contributor-Edgar Box, Gore. (SIGNED) Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen. (Ab | 28,357 (38,407) | 616 | 606 |  (3.75) | 116 | 0 | 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) — biography from Lincoln … (more) |
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Gore Vidal Gore Vidal discusses 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)… (more) Gore Vidal has 1 past event. (show)  Rainbow Reading Group: This is an LGBT book discussion group, open to the public. This month's discussion is The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal. Contact Person: Todd A. DeGraff Contact Address: 307 4th Ave. City: Iowa City State: IA Zip: 52245 Contact Phone: 319-351-6463
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