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Gore Vidal

Also known as Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Gor Vidal, Cameron Kay, Eugene Luther Vidal, Edgar Box, Katherine Everard, Eugene Vidal

American writer (1925–2012)

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Gore Vidal was an American writer who lived from 1925 to 2012 and became known for his novels, essays, and cultural commentary. He is considered an important figure in twentieth-century American literature for his sharp wit and his willingness to challenge conventional political and social ideas through his work.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Gore Vidal is referenced by 1,090 other articles, and connects out to World War II, Harry S. Truman and IMDb.

Vinony files it under 1925 births, 2012 deaths and 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights.

Its subject is documented across 66 Wikipedia language editions.

Person · Open Library

Born: 03 October 1925
Died: 31 July 2012
Works: 623

Top works

The best man
The city and the pillar
Messiah
Black boy
Poems

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Film & TV

Writing · West Point, New York, USA

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party…

Known for

Best of Enemies — Self2015
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open — Self2013
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia — Self2013
Salinger — Self - Writer2013
Valentino's Ghost — Self2013
Wilde Salomé — Self2013
Norman Mailer: The American — Self2012
Public Speaking — Self (archive footage)2011
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell — Self2011
Standing Army — Self2010

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Spain
Active from: 1984-03-06

Discography

Ganar Dos Veces2024

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 236
Total plays: 2,389

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (pron.: /ˌɡɔr vɨˈdɑːl/;, born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. He was also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage; his grandfather was the U.S. Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma. Vidal was a lifelong Democrat; he ran for political office twice and was a longtime political commentator

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,445x
Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 6,819x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
The<i>Gaia</i>mission
· 2016 · cited 6,407x
2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,853x

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Quotes

“And though I rather suspect that in a century’s time the novel will be as rare and private an art form as poetry today or that delicate and laborious process by which dedicated men fire glass with color, it will always be worth the doing.”
“If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the things satirized; if they are not, the joke falls flat. Unfortunately for our native satirists, the American mass audience possess very little general information on any subject. Each individual knows his own immediate world, but as various research polls continually inform us, he holds little knowledge in common with others.”
“The size of the population of course has much to do with this collective ignorance. When Aristophanes made a satiric point, he could be confident that his audience would appreciate his slyest nuance because in a small community each citizen was bound to share with his fellows a certain amount of general information, literary, religious, and political. National units today are too large and, in America at least, education is too bland to hope for much change.”
“After the script was ready there were the usual trials, delays, problems of temperament: each participant confident the others had gone into secret league to contrive his professional ruin (and on occasion cabals did flourish…the theater is a child’s world).”
“KRETON: Well, you know how one feels about history, the glamour of the past; I expected to hear everybody talking about great events—battles, poets, that kind of thing—but of course you don’t. You just squabble among yourselves.”
“ELLEN: Of course I know you’re from another planet and all and I guess we do think an awful lot about sex, but we’re not supposed to talk about it and we only do it when nobody’s looking.KRETON: How ravishing! These primitive taboos. You revel in public slaughter: you pay to watch two men hit one another repeatedly, yet you make love secretly, guiltily and with remorse…too delicious!”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Gore Vidal
date of birth: 1925-10-03
date of death: 2012-07-31
Commons gallery: Gore Vidal
start of work period: 1946-00-00
name in native language: Gore Vidal
pseudonym: Edgar Box
P8168: Estrada

Sources (11)

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Works in European collections

22 objects attributed to Gore Vidal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/vɪˈdɑːl/ vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California).

A grandson of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer.

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