About Gore Vidal
GORE VIDAL is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. He was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and brought up in Washington, D.C. He enlisted in the army at the age of seventeen and served as first mate on an army ship in the Bering Sea, where he wrote his first book, Williwaw. In the sixties, three praised novels established Vidal's reputation as a bestselling author: Julian (1964); Washington, D.C. (1967); and Myra Breckinridge (1968). His collected essays, United States, won the National Book Award in 1993. In 1995 he published a memoir, Palimpsest, which the Sunday Times called 'one of the best first-person accounts of this century we are likely to get'.
Novels
Williwaw (1946)
In a Yellow Wood (1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948)
The Season of Comfort (1949)
A Search for the King (1950)
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950)
A Star's Progress (1950) (writing as Katherine Everard)
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) (writing as Edgar Box)
The Judgement of Paris (1953)
Death Before Bedtime (1953) (writing as Edgar Box)
Death Likes it Hot (1955) (writing as Edgar Box)
Messiah (1956)
Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
Rocking The Boat (1962)
Julian (1964)
Washington, D.C. (1967)
Myra Brekinridge (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (1973)
Myron (1974)
1876 (1976)
Kalki (1978)
Creation (1981)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (1984)
Empire (1987)
Hollywood (1989)
Live from Golgotha (1992)
The Smithsonian Institution (1995)
The Golden Age (2000)
In a Yellow Wood (1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948)
The Season of Comfort (1949)
A Search for the King (1950)
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950)
A Star's Progress (1950) (writing as Katherine Everard)
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) (writing as Edgar Box)
The Judgement of Paris (1953)
Death Before Bedtime (1953) (writing as Edgar Box)
Death Likes it Hot (1955) (writing as Edgar Box)
Messiah (1956)
Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
Rocking The Boat (1962)
Julian (1964)
Washington, D.C. (1967)
Myra Brekinridge (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (1973)
Myron (1974)
1876 (1976)
Kalki (1978)
Creation (1981)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (1984)
Empire (1987)
Hollywood (1989)
Live from Golgotha (1992)
The Smithsonian Institution (1995)
The Golden Age (2000)
Collections
A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories (1956)
The Collected Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) (writing as Edgar Box)
Selected Works (1982)
The Essential Gore Vidal (1999)
Clouds and Eclipses (2006)
The Collected Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) (writing as Edgar Box)
Selected Works (1982)
The Essential Gore Vidal (1999)
Clouds and Eclipses (2006)
Plays
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Sex, Death and Money (1968)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays (1972)
Collected Essays: 1952 - 1972 (1974)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976 (1977)
Views from a Window: Conversations (1980)
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1981)
The Second American Revolution: And Other Essays (1976 - 1982) (1982)
Vidal in Venice (1985)
Armageddon?: Essays 1983 - 1987 (1987)
At Home: Essays 1982 - 1988 (1988)
Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (1989) (with Isabel Allende, Charles McCarry, Marge Piercy, Robert Stone)
A View from the Diners Club: Essays 1987 - 1991 (1991)
Screening History (1992)
United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995)
Virgin Islands: Essays 1992 - 1997 (1997)
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire (2002)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (2002)
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006)
Selected Essays (2007)
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) (with Jay Parini)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays (1972)
Collected Essays: 1952 - 1972 (1974)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976 (1977)
Views from a Window: Conversations (1980)
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1981)
The Second American Revolution: And Other Essays (1976 - 1982) (1982)
Vidal in Venice (1985)
Armageddon?: Essays 1983 - 1987 (1987)
At Home: Essays 1982 - 1988 (1988)
Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel (1989) (with Isabel Allende, Charles McCarry, Marge Piercy, Robert Stone)
A View from the Diners Club: Essays 1987 - 1991 (1991)
Screening History (1992)
United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995)
Virgin Islands: Essays 1992 - 1997 (1997)
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Causes of Conflict in the Last Empire (2002)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (2002)
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003)
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006)
Selected Essays (2007)
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) (with Jay Parini)
Anthologies containing stories by Gore Vidal
Awards
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Books about Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal Writer Against the Grain (1992) by Jay Parini
The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L. Doctorow (2002) by Stephen Harris
The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E.L. Doctorow (2002) by Stephen Harris
Gore Vidal recommends
Eustace Chisholm and the Works (1967) James Purdy "James Purdy is an authentic American genius." | Those Who Walk Away (1967) Patricia Highsmith "One of the most interesting writers of this dismal century." | Funeral Games (1981) (Alexander the Great, book 3) Mary Renault "One of the centuries most unexpectedly original works of art." | |
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) Jeanette Winterson "The most interesting young writer I have read." | The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty (1985) Tariq Ali "A fascinating and clear-cut account of an exotic world and family like no other." | The House of the Solitary Maggot (1986) James Purdy "James Purdy is an authentic American genius." | |
The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton (2004) Patricia O'Brien "Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton are splendid protaganists in this vivid and revealing story of our Civil War." |
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