Comparing the work of Gore Vidal--22 novels, five plays, numerous screenplays and hundreds of essays--with, say, the highly publicized grumblings of Cornel West over whether Harvard or Princeton was a ...

Vidal fell for a baseball prodigy who was killed in World War II, but now he’ll be buried a few strides from him. By Michael Daly. Special Correspondent Gore Vidal chose to be buried beside his ...

One of America’s sharpest personalities spent his last decade drunk and lonely, but remained fiery and lusty till the end. His friends, employees, and relatives recount. Senior Editor and Writer Gore ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass ...

If a man’s legacy were to be gauged by the immediate response to his death, then Gore Vidal’s is very much in danger of being reduced to a succession of pithy and caustic sentences that will however ...

It’s no spoiler to describe the crucial moment in “Best of Enemies,” Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s documentary about the debates between William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal that were ...

“Best of Enemies,” opening in select theatres on July 31st after months on the festival circuit, is an entertaining documentary about the gladiatorial debates between William F. Buckley, Jr., and Gore ...

American writer Gore Vidal sits in the living room of his home in Sorrento, Italy, in August 2004. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images. Gore Vidal, the American author, playwright and commentator who ...

Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical “Lincoln” to the satirical ...

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