Gore Vidal



Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer.

Vidal was born at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina Gore (1903-1978). He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly bisexual. He lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in 2003. Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Essays and non-fiction

 * Rocking the Boat (1963)
 * Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
 * Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
 * Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
 * Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
 * Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
 * The Second American Revolution (1983)
 * Vidal In Venice (1985) ISBN 0-671-60691-3
 * Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
 * At Home (1988)
 * A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
 * Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
 * Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
 * United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6 — National Book Award
 * Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0
 * Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
 * The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
 * Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
 * The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
 * Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
 * Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
 * Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
 * Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
 * Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
 * The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
 * Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9

Plays

 * Visit to a Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0-8222-1211-0
 * The Best Man (1960)
 * On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
 * Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
 * Weekend (1968)
 * Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
 * An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0
 * On the March to the Sea (2005)

Novels

 * Williwaw 1946 ISBN 0-226-85585-6
 * In a Yellow Wood 1947
 * The City and the Pillar 1948 ISBN 1-4000-3037-4
 * The Season of Comfort 1949 ISBN 0-233-98971-4
 * A Search for the King 1950 ISBN 0-345-25455-4
 * Dark Green, Bright Red 1950 ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
 * The Judgment of Paris 1952 ISBN 0-345-33458-2
 * Messiah 1954 ISBN 0-14-118039-0
 * A Thirsty Evil 1956 (short stories)
 * Julian 1964 ISBN 0-375-72706-X
 * Washington, D.C. 1967 ISBN 0-316-90257-8
 * Myra Breckinridge 1968 ISBN 1-125-97948-8
 * Two Sisters 1970 ISBN 0-434-82958-7
 * Burr 1973 ISBN 0-375-70873-1
 * Myron 1974 ISBN 0-586-04300-4
 * 1876 1976 ISBN 0-375-70872-3
 * Kalki 1978 ISBN 0-14-118037-4
 * Creation 1981 ISBN 0-349-10475-1
 * Duluth 1983 ISBN 0-394-52738-0
 * Lincoln 1984 ISBN 0-375-70876-6
 * Empire 1987 ISBN 0-375-70874-X
 * Hollywood 1990 ISBN 0-375-70875-8
 * Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal 1992 ISBN 0-14-023119-6
 * The Smithsonian Institution 1998 ISBN 0-375-50121-5
 * The Golden Age 2000 ISBN 0-375-72481-8
 * Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 2006 (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story — Clouds and Eclipses — added)

Screenplays

 * Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
 * The Catered Affair (1956)
 * I Accuse! (1958)
 * The Scapegoat (1959)
 * Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited)
 * Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
 * The Best Man (1964)
 * Is Paris Burning? (1966)
 * Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
 * Caligula (1979)
 * Dress Gray (1986)
 * The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited)
 * Billy the Kid (1989)
 * Dimenticare Palermo (1989)

Works under pseudonyms

 * A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as Katherine Everard
 * Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
 * Death Before Bedtime (1953) as Edgar Box
 * Death in the Fifth Position (1952) as Edgar Box
 * Death Likes It Hot (1954) as Edgar Box