Gore Vidal

**Gore Vidal** (born **Eugene Luther Gore Vidal**, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer. 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) &nbsp;— 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&ndash;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&ndash;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&nbsp;— *Clouds and Eclipses*&nbsp;— 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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