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...

AS I picked up the heavy book", wrote Gore Vidal of an 885-page tome by Herman Wouk, "I knew terror, for I am that rarest of reviewers who actually reads every word, and rather slowly." A reviewer picking up Mr Vidal's even heavier volume...

Byline: Heather Lee Schroeder In 1922 and 1925, The Nation magazine asked leading American writers to pen essays about their states. These pieces were later collected in a book titled "These United States: Portrait of America from the 1920s." The project has...

Area: 9,366,008 sq km (3,616,236 sq mi), including 204,083 sq km of inland water but excluding the 156,049 sq km of the Great Lakes that lie within U.S. boundariesPopulation (2006 est.): 299,330,000; on October 17 the population passed 300,000,000Capital: Washington, D.C. Head of state and...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A major winter storm that dropped more than 10 inches of snow across parts of the Midwestern United States barreled into New England Sunday, with snow, freezing rain and forecasts for winds as high as 50 miles per hour. Roads were...