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...

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...

Stepped-up inspections at the Canadian and Mexican borders have led to lines nearly as long as they were after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.The longer lines of people driving into the United States from Mexico or Canada, some returning U.S. citizens, have appeared over the...

Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya's largest hospital after her father died there _ from nursing neglect, she believes. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to...