Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the West Point military academy, where his father taught aeronautics. Grandson of a blind Oklahoma senator, Thomas Gore, to whom he read the reports of Congress, he enlisted at seventeen and served in the Aleutian Islands. Shunned by the literary press after his third novel, he made his living writing for television and film and published detective novels under another name. An essayist and polemicist, a candidate for the House in 1960, then for the nomination for the Senate in 1982, he died in Los Angeles in 2012.

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• NovelThe City and the PillarGore Vidal · 1948Literature