Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born 1925) was one of America's most prominent literary figures on the basis of an enormous quantity of work, including novels, essays, plays, and short stories. He was also well known to the public through frequent...

"Gore Vidal wasn't what I set out to be ... ," Gore Vidal quipped in the 18 November 1974 Newsweek, "but I don't mind what I've become." What he has become is one of America's preeminent novelists, a prolific writer whose novels and collec- tions of...

" Gore Vidal wasn't what I set out to be...," Gore Vidal quipped in the 18 November 1974 Newsweek, "but I don't mind what I've become." What he has become is one of America's preeminent novelists, a prolific writer whose novels and collections of...

Thanks to the broadcast media, which continually gives public platform to the curmudgeonly wit and iconoclastic political observations of Gore Vidal, he has become one of those rare authors who is as famous for what he says as for what he writes....

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced /ˌgɔər vɪˈdɑːl/ or /vɪˈdæl/) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays, and the scion of a prominent political family. He is an outspoken critic of the...

NEW YORK THE interview got off to a sticky start. Gore Vidal was in New York to promote Hollywood"*, his latest historical novel, which is really about Washington; and he was in a stew. He had mislaid the key to the minibar in...

The Vidal Exemption THIS MARCH, in its 120th-anniversary issue, The Nation published a weird piece by Gore Vidal that presumed on the cultural exemption he has long seemed to enjoy for his most extravagant statements. He described Norman Podhoretz (along with his...

The Transom was, of course, entranced by today's JT Leroy semi-expose in New York magazine, even though Serena Torrey, the icy blonde vixen PR woman at New York magazine wouldn't send over advance on it last Friday, or even arrange to have the author comment...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2007. There are 89 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.On this date:In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan...

In the following negative review of Palimpsest, Simon condemns the “self-aggrandizement,” vituperation, and disingenuousness of Vidal's memoir, particularly Vidal’s characterizations of various friends, writers, celebrities, and lovers.

In the following review, Bayley offers a positive evaluation of Palimpsest.

Gore Vidal, at twenty-five, occupies and enviable position in American letters. Not only is he the youngest of the group of new writers whose first books began attracting attention right after the war, but he has already produced as large and varied a body of work as many of his contemporaries may be expected to produce comfortably in a lifetime. (p. 170) Williwaw—written when Vidal was nineteen and still in the Army—was a slight and unpretentious book about the war. It was done in the clipped...