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Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

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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

Lincoln (1984) 2,605 eksemplarer
Burr (1973) 2,353 eksemplarer
Julian (1964) 1,855 eksemplarer
Creation (1981) 1,556 eksemplarer
Empire (1987) 1,288 eksemplarer
1876 (1976) 1,260 eksemplarer
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995) 1,070 eksemplarer
Myra Breckinridge (1968) 960 eksemplarer
Washington, D.C. (1967) 887 eksemplarer
Hollywood (1990) 830 eksemplarer
The Golden Age (2000) 755 eksemplarer
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (2002) 710 eksemplarer
United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993) 708 eksemplarer
Kalki (1978) 625 eksemplarer
The City and the Pillar {revised} (1965) 617 eksemplarer
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) 471 eksemplarer
Myra Breckinridge [and] Myron (1968) 459 eksemplarer
The Smithsonian Institution (1998) 444 eksemplarer
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (1992) 408 eksemplarer
Duluth (1983) 396 eksemplarer
Myron (1974) 255 eksemplarer
The Judgment of Paris (1952) 220 eksemplarer
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2007) 201 eksemplarer
At Home: Essays 1982-1988 (1988) 175 eksemplarer
Williwaw (1946) 174 eksemplarer
Two Sisters (1851) 152 eksemplarer
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) — Forfatter — 150 eksemplarer
A Thirsty Evil (1956) 144 eksemplarer
The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995) — Forfatter — 141 eksemplarer
The Impossible H. L. Mencken (1991) — Forord — 129 eksemplarer
Screening History (1992) 129 eksemplarer
Thieves Fall Out (1953) 125 eksemplarer
Death Likes It Hot (1954) 110 eksemplarer
Death Before Bedtime (1953) 104 eksemplarer
Vidal in Venice (1985) 95 eksemplarer
The Best Man [Play] (1960) 93 eksemplarer
The Essential Gore Vidal (1605) 93 eksemplarer
Visit to a Small Planet (1955) 91 eksemplarer
Deadly Sins (1994) — Bidragyder — 83 eksemplarer
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) 80 eksemplarer
Suddenly, Last Summer [1959 film] (1959) — Screenwriter — 78 eksemplarer
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1972) 71 eksemplarer
Virgin Islands (1997) 70 eksemplarer
Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987) 67 eksemplarer
The American Presidency (2003) 65 eksemplarer
En nat i New York (1883) 55 eksemplarer
Best Television Plays (1956) 45 eksemplarer
The Season of Comfort (1949) 38 eksemplarer
Sex, Death, and Money (1968) 34 eksemplarer
A View from the Diners Club (1991) 31 eksemplarer
Lincoln [1988 TV mini series] (1988) — Writer — 28 eksemplarer
Rocking the boat (1962) 27 eksemplarer
Myra Breckinridge [1970 film] (1970) — Screenwriter — 23 eksemplarer
Williwaw / A Thirsty Evil / Julian (1962) 20 eksemplarer
The Sicilian [1987 film] (1987) — Writer — 14 eksemplarer
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation of Romulas the Great (1707) — Forfatter — 10 eksemplarer
Creación II (1994) 10 eksemplarer
Creación I (1988) 8 eksemplarer
Cry Shame! (1950) 8 eksemplarer
Dangerous Voyage (1953) 7 eksemplarer
L'edat d'or : I (2001) 6 eksemplarer
The Best Man [1964 film] (1964) — Screenwriter — 5 eksemplarer
Great American Families (1975) 5 eksemplarer
Ensayos 1952-2001 (2007) 5 eksemplarer
Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts (1968) 5 eksemplarer
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 eksemplarer
The Best TV Plays (1970) 3 eksemplarer
REMOTATE SU QUESTI SCHERMI (1993) 2 eksemplarer
Three Plays 2 eksemplarer
Das ist nicht Amerika!: Essays (2000) 2 eksemplarer
Novels of Gore Vidal 2 eksemplarer
Democrazia tradita 6-1 (2004) 2 eksemplarer
The Art of Fiction 1 eksemplar
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 eksemplar
Se controlli i media è fatta (2008) 1 eksemplar
Lincoln: A Novel - Part 2 of 2 (1984) 1 eksemplar
Lincoln: A Novel - Part 1 of 2 (1993) 1 eksemplar
The End of Liberty 1 eksemplar
À Procura do Rei 1 eksemplar
On Our Own Now — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
කල්කි 1 eksemplar
The Civil War 1 eksemplar
Due sorelle 1 eksemplar
Impe rio (1989) 1 eksemplar
Naiset kirjastossa (1986) 1 eksemplar
Lincoln T3 1 eksemplar
Paolo 1 eksemplar
La institució smithsoniana (1999) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Tarzan, Abernes Konge (1914) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver4,860 eksemplarer
The Golden Bowl (1904) — Forord, nogle udgaver; Introduktion, nogle udgaver2,739 eksemplarer
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Bidragyder — 1,371 eksemplarer
Collected Stories (1985) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver506 eksemplarer
Gattaca [1997 film] (1997) — Actor — 373 eksemplarer
Collected Stories, 1939–1976 (1979) — Introduktion — 361 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Bidragyder — 321 eksemplarer
Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1901) — Forord, nogle udgaver221 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 2002 (2002) — Bidragyder — 220 eksemplarer
Atheism: A Reader (2000) — Bidragyder — 181 eksemplarer
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 udgaver172 eksemplarer
Selected Speeches and Writings (1992) — Introduktion — 172 eksemplarer
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (1605) — Introduktion — 159 eksemplarer
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Bidragyder — 158 eksemplarer
Granta 32: History (1990) — Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Bidragyder — 142 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Confessions of an Art Addict (1960) — Forord, nogle udgaver119 eksemplarer
The Christopher Street reader (1982) — Bidragyder — 119 eksemplarer
Caligula [1979 film] (1979) — Screenwriter — 93 eksemplarer
The Celluloid Closet [1995 film] (1995) — Self — 89 eksemplarer
India in Mind (2005) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
Roma [1972 film] (1972) 74 eksemplarer
Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (1989) — Introduktion — 74 eksemplarer
The Edith Wharton omnibus (1978) — Introduktion — 73 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
All Trivia: A Collection of Reflections & Aphorisms (1933) — Forord, nogle udgaver67 eksemplarer
10 Short Plays (1963) — Bidragyder — 62 eksemplarer
Gay Sunshine Interviews. Vol. 1 (1978) — Interviewee — 60 eksemplarer
Why We Fight [2005 film] (2005) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
With Honors [1994 film] (1994) — Actor — 55 eksemplarer
Angels on Toast / Wicked Pavilion / Golden Spur (1989) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver54 eksemplarer
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (1992) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
Best American Plays: Fifth Series, 1957-1963 (1952) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
The Signet Book of Short Plays (2004) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (1989) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 eksemplarer
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She [2005 TV Documentary film] (2005) — Fortæller — 21 eksemplarer
A Bush & Botox World (2007) — Forord — 19 eksemplarer
The Left Handed Gun [1958 film] (1958) — Original play — 16 eksemplarer
Kennedys: Stories of Life and Death from an American Family (2001) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
New World Writing: Fourth Mentor Selection (1953) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Against the Beast: An Anti-Imperialist Reader (2004) — Introduktion — 11 eksemplarer
New World Writing: First Mentor Selection (1952) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Film Scripts Four: Darling, a Hard Days Night, the Best Man (1989) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Best of Enemies [2015 film] (2015) — Actor — 4 eksemplarer
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal [2015 film] (2015) — Archive footage — 3 eksemplarer
What Makes a Man G.I.B.* *Good in Bed (1979) — Efterskrift — 2 eksemplarer
Short Plays for Reading and Acting (1970) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Playboy Magazine ~ December 1987 (Brigitte Nielsen) (1987) — Interview — 1 eksemplar

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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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I was studying Emperor Julian's writings in the past and consider myself relatively well-versed in what remained of Mithraic mysteries and those few scattered sources on other mystes' traditions. Since I studied middle neoplatonism in depth along with Chaldean theurgical underground - and I still humbly do not consider myself an expert - a friend of mine commended this book to me. He knew that I'm both pro-nobilitas, anti-christian, a history buff and looking at the golden times of high antique through the prism of a tear that was semblant of the one left behind in Alexandria when the "Dionisian company abandoned it", when Hypatia was murdered and Serapeion destroyed. I always found Julian the last hope of pagan Rome, a great potential reformer, unifier and a hope to plant seeds to renew the spirit of Rome. I read this book blushing with joy, like a little child, at times grave, at times uplifting with ethos, at times flirtatious or self-important and thinking "what would I do" from the perspective of each character in the book. Extremely well-researched, visible throughout the captivating narration, excellent grasp of human nature. As a sidenote, it also left a personal mark on me by situationalism. I finished the last two chapters at 4 AM in the morning, when an old acquaintance of mine - an underdeveloped love from years ago - that started blooming only recently was sleeping nearby. I looked at her from time to time with a smile on my face and then after finishing the book joined her in sleep, kissing her gently in the most gracious manner I could conjure with a simple gesture. For that, I will remember this book for the rest of my life.… (mere)
 
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Saturnin.Ksawery | 38 andre anmeldelser | Jan 12, 2024 |
Extremely well written. Vidal places interesting characters at the center of interesting historical times. The resulting story is engaging and insightful into social animal human nature.
 
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BookyMaven | 10 andre anmeldelser | Dec 6, 2023 |
Vidal is erudite and well read on the intricacies of the founding fathers, having written a series of very good books about them and their era. This is like dipping your toes into a nonfiction version of these stories, the interpersonal conflicts, the differing philosophies, of the revolutionary era to the first presidents. Tangents are frequent and opinions come fast and freely, not just about the past but then (then) present, with many allusions to prescience in the founders being relevant to early 2000s politics.… (mere)
 
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A.Godhelm | 14 andre anmeldelser | Oct 20, 2023 |
A thoroughly nasty, but very enjoyable, memoir, in which Gore Vidal shamelessly and wittily takes the opportunity to settle scores with numerous well-known people who aren't around any more to answer back, whilst at the same time doing his best to impress us with how many of the great and famous he has rubbed shoulders with at one time or another. I frequently felt uncomfortable about laughing out loud at this book, but it was hard not to.

Lots of vitriol is directed at his mother; at the Kennedys (he shared a stepfather with Jackie); at the US literary establishment, which he accuses of blacklisting him after the publication of The city and the pillar with its explicit same-sex love story; at Truman Capote (accused of being short); at President Truman's "national security state" (fair enough); at European cinema for its deluded notion that directors are more important than writers; at Charlton Heston; at Hillary Clinton (insufficiently impressed at meeting him); at the English royal family (dim); and at just about everyone else who appears in the book, with the minor exceptions of Tennessee Williams, who is only mildly teased, and Vidal's grandfather Senator T P Gore, who can do no wrong.… (mere)
 
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thorold | 14 andre anmeldelser | Oct 15, 2023 |

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Værker
151
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Medlemmer
28,193
Popularitet
#716
Vurdering
3.8
Anmeldelser
463
ISBN
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Sprog
23
Udvalgt
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