Biography Essay"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 preemin...
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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 ...
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Eugene Luther Vidal was born in West Point, New York, where his father was an army instructor of aeronautics. He later took the name, Gore, from his mother, Nina Gore. As a prolific novelist, Vidal is...
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" 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,...
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In the following essay, Stimpson examines the archetypal themes and power dynamics of sexuality and gender identity in Myra Breckenridge and Myron, drawing attention to the function of these motifs in...
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Tab Hunter’s career as a star was actually quite short—six or seven years, from about 1953 to 1960, when it became obvious that he’d been replaced by other fresh-faced, short-term...
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Tab Hunter’s career as a star was actually quite short—six or seven years, from about 1953 to 1960, when it became obvious that he’d been replaced by other fresh-faced, short-term...
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Critical Essay by Catharine R. Stimpson
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