Gore Vidal (born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer.

Vidal was born at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina Gore (1903-1978). He was promiscuous in his youth and was openly bisexual. He lived with a man for over fifty years until he died in 2003. Vidal died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Bibliography

Essays and non-fiction
Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution (1983)
Vidal In Venice (1985) 
Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
At Home (1988)
A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
Screening History (1992) 
Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) 
United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993)  — National Book Award
Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) 
Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
The American Presidency (1998) 
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001)  (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) 
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (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) 
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) 
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009)

Plays
Visit to a Small Planet (1957) 
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 2004)
Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) 
On the March to the Sea (2005)

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  (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
The Judgment of Paris 1952 
Messiah 1954 
A Thirsty Evil 1956 (short stories)
Julian 1964 
Washington, D.C. 1967 
Myra Breckinridge 1968 
Two Sisters 1970 
Burr 1973 
Myron 1974 
1876 1976 
Kalki 1978 
Creation 1981 
Duluth 1983 
Lincoln 1984 
Empire 1987 
Hollywood 1990 
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal 1992 
The Smithsonian Institution 1998 
The Golden Age 2000 
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories 2006 (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story — Clouds and Eclipses — added)

Screenplays
Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
The Catered Affair (1956)
I Accuse! (1958)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Best Man (1964)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
Caligula (1979)
Dress Gray (1986)
The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Dimenticare Palermo (1989)

Works under pseudonyms
A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as Katherine Everard
Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
Death Before Bedtime (1953) as Edgar Box
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) as Edgar Box
Death Likes It Hot (1954) as Edgar Box

References

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LGBT people from New York
American historians
American movie actors
American novelists
American television writers
Bisexual people
Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in the United States
LGBT writers
Screenwriters from New York
1925 births
2012 deaths