Gore Vidal (Magill’s Literary Annual 2000)
At a glance:
- Author: Fred Kaplan
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1925-1999
- Setting: New York; Los Angeles; and Rome and Rapallo, Italy
- Principal Characters: Gore Vidal, Gene Vidal, Nina Gore Vidal, T. P. Gore, Tennessee Williams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Howard Austen
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Los Angeles, Novelists, Italy or Italians, Rome
- Locales: New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Rome, Italy, Rapallo, Italy
A strong case can be made that Gore Vidal has been the most consistent, successful, and interesting American writer of the second half of the twentieth century. Following the publication of his first novel, Williwaw, in 1946 when he was nineteen, Vidal produced a series of outstanding contemporary and historical novels, including the undisputed masterpiece, Julian (1964); innovative “inventions” such as Myra Breckinridge (1968) and The Smithsonian Institution (1998); highly successful Broadway plays such as Visit to a Small Planet (pr. 1957) and...
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