Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
Forfatter af Lincoln
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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
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Værker af Gore Vidal
Troldmandens lærling. Overs. fra amerikansk af Helga Vang Lauridsen. Originalens titel: "Messiah". Omslag: Preben… (1954) 489 eksemplarer
Richard Løvehjerte. Amerikansk titel: A Search for the King. Omslagstegning: Janos Hovath (1950) 192 eksemplarer
Julian / Williwaw / The Judgement of Paris / Messiah / The City and the Pillar (1979) 77 eksemplarer
The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and an Afterword (1965) 63 eksemplarer
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America (2014) — Forfatter — 27 eksemplarer
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Preface by Gore Vidal) (1966) — Contributor & Introduction — 6 eksemplarer
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 eksemplarer
Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes) (Easton Press) (1990) 2 eksemplarer
Three Plays 2 eksemplarer
Novels of Gore Vidal 2 eksemplarer
Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e altre tristi verita, Democrazia tradita (2005) 2 eksemplarer
The Art of Fiction 1 eksemplar
Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 eksemplar
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 eksemplar
Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 eksemplar
The End of Liberty 1 eksemplar
De Fato E De Ficção, Ensaios Contra A Corrente 1 eksemplar
"Visit to a Small Planet" (Booth Theatre - New York - Opening May 1957) Playbill "On Cover - Cyril Ritchard" 1 eksemplar
ගැලවුම්කාර ඉසිවරයා 1 eksemplar
À Procura do Rei 1 eksemplar
On Our Own Now — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
කල්කි 1 eksemplar
Three stratagems {short story} 1 eksemplar
The Civil War 1 eksemplar
Due sorelle 1 eksemplar
Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 eksemplar
The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 eksemplar
Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 eksemplar
The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 eksemplar
A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 eksemplar
The Robin {short story} 1 eksemplar
Il mondo di Watergate 1 eksemplar
Lincoln T3 1 eksemplar
Paolo 1 eksemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 17] 1 eksemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 46] 1 eksemplar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 47] 1 eksemplar
Mord i femte positionen 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 172 eksemplarer
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragyder — 153 eksemplarer
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (1994) — Forord — 128 eksemplarer
The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (2000) — Forord — 67 eksemplarer
Angels on Toast / Wicked Pavilion / Golden Spur (1989) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 54 eksemplarer
What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election (2005) — Introduktion — 46 eksemplarer
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 eksemplarer
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Vidal, Gore
- Juridisk navn
- Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore
- Andre navne
- Box, Edgar
Kay, Cameron
Everard, Katherine - Fødselsdato
- 1925-10-03
- Dødsdag
- 2012-07-31
- Begravelsessted
- Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery, Washington, D.C., Amerika
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Amerika
- Fødested
- West Point, New York, Amerika
- Dødssted
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Amerika
- Dødsårsag
- pneumonia
- Bopæl
- West Point, New York, Amerika
Washington, D.C., Amerika
Ravello, Italië
Los Angeles, Californië, Amerika - Uddannelse
- Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., Amerika
St. Albans, Washington, D.C., Amerika
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, Amerika - Erhverv
- Auteur
Scenarioschrijver
Politiek activist
Politiek analist
Acteur
Toneelschrijver (vis alle 7)
Essayist - Relationer
- Carter, Jimmy (Neef)
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Honorary President of the American Humanist Association (2009) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- National Book Awards - Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2009)
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Discussions
The City and the Pillar i Combiners! (juni 2022)
Dreams of President Abe Lincoln i Dreamers (februar 2017)
Gore Vidal, 86, RIP i Book talk (august 2012)
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