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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 review, Woods offers an unfavorable assessment of Vidal's revised version of The City and the Pillar, which, according to Woods, muddles rather than improves the original. Wood...
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Critical Review by Gregory Woods
