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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal 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, and later in 19…
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culture · American writer (1925–2012) · playwright · actor · screenwriter · novelist · essayist · writer · literary critic · non-fiction writer · science fiction writer · politician · also Gore Vidal, Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Gor Vidal, Cameron Kay, Eugene Luther Vidal, Edgar Box
Born 3 October 1925 · Died 31 July 2012 · Q167821
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2026· 5 entries
“Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes”
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“Once again, words failed Norman Mailer.”
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“s homosexual subtext and that the director, the producer, and the screenwriter agreed to keep Heston ignorant of it, lest he refuse to play the scene. In turn, on learning of that explanation, Heston said that Vidal had contributed little to Ben-Hur. Despite Vidal”
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“s publication, an editor at E. P. Dutton told him,”
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2018· 1 entry
Published “The Immune Landscape of Cancer” in Immunity — cited 4,794 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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2013· 2 entries
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
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In the 2013 article "Gore Vidal's Secret, Unpublished Love Letter to Anaïs Nin", writer Kim Krizan said she found an unpublished love letter from Vidal to Nin that contradicts his denial.
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2012· 14 entries
In the program A Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan, Vidal's life and works were celebrated at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, with a revival of The Best Man: A Play About Politics (1960)
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SheKnows: Gore Vidal dies, aged 86
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TV Guide: Writer Gore Vidal Dies at 86
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The Nation: Remembering Gore Vidal
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KCRW: Remembering Gore Vidal, writer and playwright 1925 – 2012
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Died 2012-07-31.
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Died of pneumonia at his home in the Hollywood Hills, aged 86
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BroadwayWorld: Gore Vidal's The Best Man Revival (2012 Broadway)
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“Czasem mądrzej jest nie uciekać, lecz spojrzeć w oczy temu, co budzi strach.”
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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“Nie wystarczy odnieść sukces. Inni muszą ponieść porażkę.”
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“Człowiek nigdy nie wie, kiedy jest szczęśliwy; wie tylko, kiedy był szczęśliwy.”
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“Opis: w odpowiedzi na pytanie amerykańskiego dziennikarza, czy jego pierwszym seksualnym partnerem był mężczyzna czy kobieta.”
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“Gore Vidal, escritor, que assistirá à execução de Timothy McVeigh, condenado à morte pelo atentado de Oklahoma que matou 168 pessoas nos EUA”
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2010· 1 entry
Vidal began to suffer from Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award (2009).
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Vidal won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, which called him a "prominent social critic on politics, history, literature and culture"
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2007· 3 entries
While discussing 9/11 conspiracy theories that might explain the "who
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“I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.”
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Endorsed Democrat Dennis Kucinich for president (in 2008), because Kucinich was "the most eloquent of the lot" of presidential candidates from either party and "very much a favorite out there, in the amber fields of g
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2005· 1 entry
“s final months, the Japanese had tried to surrender:”
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2003· 3 entries
Vidal attributed the longevity of their relationship to the absence of sex, remarking, "It's easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part, and impossible, I have observed, when it does." Austen died from a brain tumor in September 2003.
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As his health declined, Vidal sold La Rondinaia, and he and Austen returned to live at their villa in Outpost Estates, Los Angeles
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Buckley resumed his complaint of having been libeled by Vidal, this time with the publication of the anthology Esquire's Big Book of Great Writing (2003), which included Vidal's essay "A Distasteful Encounter with Willia
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2002· 2 entries
Published “Computable measure of entanglement” in Physical Review A — cited 4,391 times.
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Transferred his papers to Houghton Library at Harvard University, where they remain
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2000· 1 entry
Vidal published the collection of essays The Last Empire, then such self-described "pamphlets" as Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta and Imperial America, critiques o
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1997· 1 entry
Vidal was one of 34 public intellectuals and celebrities who joined a publicity campaign waged by Scientologists against the German government, signing an open letter addressed to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published
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1995· 1 entry
Published a memoir, Palimpsest, and in 2006 its follow-up volume, Point to Point Navigation
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1993).
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Vidal won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for the anthology United States: Essays 1952–92 (1993)
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1987· 2 entries
“Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again”
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“Dawn Powell: The American Writer”
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Lucien Barrière Literary Award (1983).
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (1982).
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Campaigned against Jerry Brown, the incumbent governor of California, in the Democratic primary election for U
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1980· 1 entry
“Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas”
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1978· 1 entry
To avoid jail for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl, Vidal said: "I really don't give a fuck
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1975· 2 entries
Vidal sued writer Truman Capote for slander over the accusation that he had once been thrown out of the White House for being drunk, putting his arm around First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and insulting her mother
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“President and Mrs. U.S. Grant”
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1972· 1 entry
Vidal purchased the Italian villa La Rondinaia ("The Swallow's Nest") in Ravello, on the Amalfi coast
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1971· 2 entries
During the recording of The Dick Cavett Show, with Janet Flanner, Norman Mailer allegedly head-butted Vidal backstage
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Endorsed the consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader for U
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1969· 1 entry
Vidal sold Edgewater to New York financier Richard Jenrette for $125,000
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1968· 1 entry
The ABC television network hired the liberal Vidal and the conservative William F
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1967· 2 entries
“French Letters: Theories of the New Novel”
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Vidal appeared in the CBS documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, in which he debated homosexuality with professor Albert Goldman
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1960· 3 entries
Was the Democratic nominee for the 29th Congressional District of New York State and used Edgewater as his campaign headquarters
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Vidal was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 29th Congressional District of New York, a usually Republican district that included most of the Catskills and the western bank of the Hudson River, including Newburgh
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To the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California)
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1958· 1 entry
The director William Wyler required a script doctor to rewrite the screenplay for Ben-Hur (1959), originally written by Karl Tunberg
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1956· 1 entry
MGM hired Vidal as a screenwriter with a four-year employment contract
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Edgar Awards (1955).
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1950· 2 entries
On Labor Day 1950, Vidal met Howard Austen at the Everard Baths in New York City.
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Bought the riverfront Edgewater estate in Barrytown, New York, at his friend Alice Astor Bouverie's recommendation
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1945· 1 entry
And was the only person Vidal ever loved
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1944· 1 entry
Buckley and unnamed siblings had vandalized a Protestant church in Sharon, Connecticut (the Buckley family hometown), after a pastor's wife had sold a house to a Jewish family
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1941· 1 entry
Vidal dropped his two first names, because he "wanted a sharp, distinctive name, appropriate for an aspiring author, or a national political leader
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1940· 1 entry
Vidal attended the Los Alamos Ranch School
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1939· 1 entry
During his summer holiday, Vidal went with some colleagues and a professor from St
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-03.
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1922· 1 entry
Nina married Eugene Luther Vidal Sr
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