(the Rev. Vance Vidal, Valerie Vidal Hewitt, Thomas Gore Auchincloss, and Nina Gore Auchincloss Steers Straight) and four stepbrothers from his mother’s third marriage to Army Air Forces Major General Robert Olds , who died in 1943, ten months after marrying Vidal’s mother. [19] Vidal’s nephews include the brothers Burr Steers , writer