Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal in October 2009

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.

Bibliography

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

Other websites

• Gore Vidal on IMDb