Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
Auteur van Lincoln
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Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. on October 3, 1925 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He did not go to college but attended St. Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1943. He enlisted in the Army, where he toon meer became first mate on a freight supply ship in the Aleutian Islands. His first novel, Williwaw, was published in 1946 when he was twenty-one years old and working as an associate editor at the publishing company E. P. Dutton. The City and the Pillar was about a handsome, athletic young Virginia man who gradually discovers that he is homosexual, which caused controversy in the publishing world. The New York Times refused to advertise the novel and gave a negative review of it and future novels. He had such trouble getting subsequent novels reviewed that he turned to writing mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box and then gave up novel-writing altogether for a time. Once he moved to Hollywood, he wrote television dramas, screenplays, and plays. His films included I Accuse, Suddenly Last Summer with Tennessee Williams, Is Paris Burning? with Francis Ford Coppola, and Ben-Hur. His most successful play was The Best Man, which he also adapted into a film. He started writing novels again in the 1960's including Julian, Washington, D.C., Myra Breckenridge, Burr, Myron, 1876, Lincoln, Hollywood, Live From Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal, and The Golden Age. He also published two collections of essays entitled The Second American Revolution, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1982 and United States: Essays 1952-1992. In 2009, he received the National Book Awards lifetime achievement award. He died from complications of pneumonia on July 31, 2012 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Gore Vidal at the Union Square Barnes & Noble to be interviewed by Leonard Lopate to discuss his life and his photographic memoir, Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by David Shankbone
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Permanente oorlog voor permanente vrede - De nachtzijde van Amerika's politiek (2002) 710 exemplaren
The City and the Pillar, Revised: Including an Essay, Sex and the Law, and an Afterword (1965) 63 exemplaren
Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America (2014) — Auteur — 27 exemplaren
Romulus: The Broadway Adaptation and the Original Romulus the Great by Friedrich Duerrenmatt (Preface by Gore Vidal) (1966) — Contributor & Introduction — 6 exemplaren
L'edat d'or, vol. II 4 exemplaren
Lincoln- Burr- 1876- Washington D. C.- Empire- Hollywood (Six Volumes) (Easton Press) (1990) 2 exemplaren
Three Plays 2 exemplaren
Untitled 2 exemplaren
Trilogia dell'impero: La fine della liberta, Le menzogne dell'impero e altre tristi verita, Democrazia tradita (2005) 2 exemplaren
The Art of Fiction 1 exemplaar
Was Lincoln Bisexual? [Printout] 1 exemplaar
Eugene Luther Vidal 1 exemplaar
Julian / Lincoln / Burr 1 exemplaar
The End of Liberty 1 exemplaar
De Fato E De Ficção, Ensaios Contra A Corrente 1 exemplaar
"Visit to a Small Planet" (Booth Theatre - New York - Opening May 1957) Playbill "On Cover - Cyril Ritchard" 1 exemplaar
ගැලවුම්කාර ඉසිවරයා 1 exemplaar
À Procura do Rei 1 exemplaar
On Our Own Now — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
කල්කි 1 exemplaar
Three stratagems {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Civil War 1 exemplaar
Due sorelle 1 exemplaar
Monsters In Orbit/World Between 1 exemplaar
The Ladies in the Library {short story} 1 exemplaar
Erlinda and Mr. Coffin {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Zenner Trophy {short story} 1 exemplaar
A Moment of Green Laurel {short story} 1 exemplaar
The Robin {short story} 1 exemplaar
Il mondo di Watergate 1 exemplaar
Lincoln: A Novel - Part 3 of 3 1 exemplaar
Paolo 1 exemplaar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 17] 1 exemplaar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 46] 1 exemplaar
The Best Man (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 47] 1 exemplaar
Mord i femte positionen 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Vidal, Gore
- Officiële naam
- Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Box, Edgar
Kay, Cameron
Everard, Katherine - Geboortedatum
- 1925-10-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2012-07-31
- Graflocatie
- Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery, Washington, D.C., Amerika
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Amerika
- Geboorteplaats
- West Point, New York, Amerika
- Plaats van overlijden
- Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Amerika
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- pneumonia
- Woonplaatsen
- West Point, New York, Amerika
Washington, D.C., Amerika
Ravello, Italië
Los Angeles, Californië, Amerika - Opleiding
- Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., Amerika
St. Albans, Washington, D.C., Amerika
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, Amerika - Beroepen
- Auteur
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Politiek activist
Politiek analist
Acteur
Toneelschrijver (toon alle 7)
Essayist - Relaties
- Carter, Jimmy (Neef)
- Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1999])
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Honorary President of the American Humanist Association (2009) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Book Awards - Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2009)
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The City and the Pillar in Combiners! (juni 2022)
Dreams of President Abe Lincoln in Dreamers (februari 2017)
Gore Vidal, 86, RIP in Book talk (augustus 2012)
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