American writer Gore Vidal, whose work spanned the fields of literature, theater, politics, and beyond, died of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 86. In his writing, Vidal ...

Gore Vidal's Burr is available to purchase through Amazon and various other booksellers. We've all heard the old chestnut about those who don't know history being doomed to repeat it. Well, the ...

Writer Gore Vidal died more than a year ago, but his family says he wrote his last will when he wasn't of sound mind. We look at the case with an estate planner to examine the law and the options when ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing -- tall, handsome and composed -- and an authoritative baritone ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, ...

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Gore Vidal author and playwright died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt writes: When I learned of the death of Gore Vidal last ...

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most studied and written about people in American history, and rightfully so. He was the president during the most significant moment in our nation’s history. One can ...

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 ...

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels and has written films including the classics Ben-Hur and Suddenly, Last Summer. He is recently the author of The Last Empire and Inventing a Nation.

The Best Man comes to life at Stagecrafters at the perfect time of year. Gore Vidal's play about the 1960 race for the Democratic presidential nomination is performed effortlessly by the cast and ...