Gore Vidal
American writer (1925-2012) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 86
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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Sam Spiegel Produced Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Sam Zimbalist Produced The Catered Affair and I Accuse!
Burr Steers Directed Igby Goes Down (2003)
Federico Fellini Directed Roma (1972)
Martin Scorsese Directed American Masters
Bette Davis Gore wrote The Catered Affair and The Scapegoat
Peter O'Toole Gore wrote Caligula (1981)
Susan Sarandon Also in Bob Roberts and Igby Goes Down
Danny DeVito Produced Gattaca (1998)
Ernest Borgnine Also in Gattaca (1997)
Philippe Noiret Gore wrote The Palermo Connection (1990)
Bill Irwin Also in American Masters and Igby Goes Down
Franklin J. Schaffner Directed The Best Man (1964)
Richard Brooks Directed The Catered Affair (1956)
Edie Adams Also in American Masters- George P. Cosmatos Directed Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
- Joss Ackland Gore wrote The Sicilian (1988)
William Kennedy Influenced by Gore
Andrew G. Vajna Produced Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Sacha Pitoëff Gore wrote Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Turi Vasile Produced Roma (1972)
Alek Keshishian Directed With Honors (1994)
Dana Brunetti Produced Shrink (2009)
Michael Shamberg Produced Gattaca (1997)
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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
About this person
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.
