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Gore Vidal – Obituary, New York Times; Gore Vidal Biography and Interview with American Academy of Achievement; Gore Vidal on Encyclopædia Britannica; Gore Vidal, on The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; Gore Vidal, on Open Library, Internet Archive; Gore Vidal and Dennis Altman Speaking About Gore Vidal's 'America' on 11/07/05 at D.G. Wills ...
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9; I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) ISBN 978-1-61902-174-7; Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014) Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015) ISBN 978-1 ...
Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; [1] January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was the longtime companion of American writer Gore Vidal. They were together for 53 years, until Austen's death. They were together for 53 years, until Austen's death.
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. He became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
[41] Gore Vidal, who was banned from the White House after a run-in with Billings, [42] was critical of Billings, [43] but also thought Billings played an important role as an aide to Kennedy, who was often ill or in pain. "He needed Lem Billings to get around — better than a trained nurse" that would have made his political career impossible.
Actress Danielle Vasinova is opening up about her unique experience with death. In December 2019, months before COVID was declared a pandemic, Vasinova caught the virus. The actress, who will kick ...
The novel is written as the memoir of Eugene Luther (Vidal's birth name), one of the first followers of Cavism, founded by John Cave, an American undertaker. Cave teaches, among other things, not to fear death and to actually desire it under certain circumstances. Later followers come to glorify death, and even enforce it on other members.