AOL: The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder
The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder
(Reuters) - Writer Gore Vidal, whose acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture in novels and essays made him one of the best-known American authors of his generation, died on Tuesday ...
Gore Vidal was best known as an author, pundit and raconteur. But the writer, who died Tuesday (Aug. 1, 2012) at 86, also had time for movies — both writing for and appearing in them. His ...
"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his novels and essays with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture while carrying on feuds with big-name literary rivals, died ...
The kitchen-sink correction that ran with the obituary for Gore Vidal in The New York Times may be the best commentary yet on the life of Vidal, the larger-than-life writer and TV personality who died ...
Gore Vidal, the prolific scribe who died of complications of pneumonia, on Tuesday left an indelible legacy that few authors would ever reach. Mediums didn't seem to throw the writer. His effortless ...
Writer and cultural critic Gore Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills Tuesday from complications with pneumonia, his nephew told the New York Times. He was 86. Born in 1925 at the West Point ...