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 appearances...
"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 essa...
" 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 essays...
Gore Vidal's "The Golden Age" lasts a mere 14 years. It opens with the Roosevelt-Willkie election of 1940 and ends just after the Korean War (a brief coda brings us up to the millennium celebrations). In between we have Eleanor and Franklin, the Second...
Vidal's 'Golden Age' lacks luster of his earlier works By JOHN FREEMAN Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, September 17, 2000 The Golden Age. By Gore Vidal. Doubleday. 448 pages. $27.50. More than any other writer of the last...
