Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal the October 3rd 1925) is a Romancier, author of Théâtre and American Essayiste .

Resulting from a family of influential politicians (his grandfather was senator) related to the dynasty of the Kennedy, Gore published in 1948 The City and the Pillar , delivers which made scandal because it was the first true American novel to put in scene clearly homosexual characters.

In the Years 1950, it writes much for television, then became scenario writer in Hollywood to earn his living. But the literary ambitions never leave it. It ties friendships with colleagues like Truman Capote (with which, then, it was scrambled with dead) or Tennessee Williams, attends Anaïs Nin as well as Jack Kerouac.

It became thereafter one of the large designers of the American literature. Politically, he frequently denounces what he calls " the policy impériale" the USA.

During about thirty years, Gore Vidal shared its time between Ravello on the Côte amalfitaine in Italy and Los Angeles in California. For health reasons, it decided, in 2003, to sell its villa of Ravello, called Rondinaia. Today, he lives most of the time in Los Angeles.

Publications

Tests and non-fiction

• Rocking the Boat (1963)
• Reflections Upon has Sinking Ship (1969)
• Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
• Homage to Daniel Shays (1973)
• Matters off Fact and off Fiction (1977)
• The Second American Revolution (1982)
• Armageddon? (1987) (the U.K. only)
• At Home (1988)
• has View From The Diner' S Club (1991) (the U.K. only)
• Screening History (1992) ISBN 0233988033
• Decline and Fall off the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1878825003
• United States: essays 1952-1992 (1993) ISBN 0767908066
• Palimpsest: has to memoir (1995) ISBN 0679440380
• Virgin Islands (1997) (the U.K. only)
• The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1878825151
• Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
• The Last Worsens: essays 1992-2000 (2001) ISBN 037572639X (there is also has much shorter the U.K. edition)
• Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace gold How We Came To Be So Hated , Thunder' S Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 156025405X
• Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta , Thunder' S Mouth Near, (2002) ISBN 1560255021
• Inventing has Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0300101716
• Imperial America: Reflections one the United States off Amnesia (2004)

Plays

• Visit to has Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0822212110
• The Best Man (1960)
• One the March to the Sea (1960 - 1961, 2004)
• Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Duerrenmatt' S play) (1962)
• Weekend (1968)
• Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
• An evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0394718690

Novels

• Williwaw (1946) ISBN 0226855856
• In has Yellow Wood (1947) off
• The City and the Pillar (1948) ISBN 1400030374
• The Season Comfort (1949) ISBN 0233989714
• has Search for the King (1950) ISBN 0345254554
• Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) ISBN 0233989137 (pseudoprophecy off the Guatemala blow off 1954, see " In the Lair off the Octopus" Dreaming War )
• The Judgment off Paris (1953) ISBN 0345334582
• Messiah (1955) ISBN 0141180390
• has Thirsty Evil (1956) (shorts stories)
• Julian (1964) ISBN 037572706X
• Washington, D.C (1967) ISBN 0316902578
• Myra Breckinridge (1968)
• Two Sisters (1970) ISBN 0434829587
• Burr (1973) ISBN 0375708731
• Myron (1975) ISBN 0586043004
• 1876 (1976) ISBN 0375708723
• Kalki (1978) ISBN 0141180374
• Creation (1981) ISBN 0349104751
• Duluth (1983) ISBN 0394527380
• Lincoln (1984) ISBN 0375708766
• Empire (1987) ISBN 037570874X
• Hollywood (1989) ISBN 0375708758
• Live from Golgotha: the Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992) ISBN 0140231196
• The Smithsonian Institution (1998) ISBN 0375501215
• The Old Golden delicious (2000) ISBN 0375724818

Under pseudonyms

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

Bibliography on the author

• Philippe Mikriammos, “Good birthday Mr. Vidal”, in Masks , re-examined homosexualities, n°7, p. May 8th, th and th 1980, Paris.