Gore Vidal

**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.

### 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