Gore Vidal
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.
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1948 Gathering at New York City - Left front: William Rose Benét. Behind him: Stephen Spender. Behind him: Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska. Behind the seated Osbert Sitwell and Edith Sitwell are (left to right) Tennessee Williams, Richard Eberhart, Gore Vidal, José García Villa. In front of the seated Sitwells: Charles Henri Ford. On the ladder: W. H. Auden. Standing against the bookcase (right): Elizabeth Bishop. Seated in front of her: Marianne Moore. In front of her (left to right): Delmore Schwartz and Randall Jarrell.
Vidal at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2008
Vidal's historical novel 1876 (1976)
Vidal (second from right) supporting the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike
Vidal speaking for the People's Party in 1972
In 2001, Vanity Fair published an article by Vidal on Timothy McVeigh. The article attempts to understand why McVeigh perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Vidal and ex-senator George McGovern at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, August 26, 2009Awards 6
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.
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