
Works of American writer Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, noted for his cynical humor and his numerous accounts of society in decline, include the play The Best Man (1960) and the novel Myra Breckinridge (1968) . People know his essays, screenplays, and Broadway. They also knew his patrician manner, transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Vidal came from a distinguished political lineage; his grandfather was the senator Thomas Gore, and he later became a relation (through marriage) to Jacqueline Kennedy. Vidal, a longtime political critic, ran twice for political office. He was a lifelong isolationist Democrat. The Nation, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and Esquire published his essays. Essays and media appearances long criticized foreign policy. In addition, he from the 1980s onwards characterized the United States as a decaying empire. Additionally, he was known for his well publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Truman Capote. They fell into distinct social and historical camps. Alongside his social, his best known historical include Julian, Burr, and Lincoln. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics as the first major feature of unambiguous homosexuality. At the time of his death he was the last of a generation of American writers who had served during World War II, including J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller. Perhaps best remembered for his caustic wit, he referred to himself as a "gentleman bitch" and has been described as the 20th century's answer to Oscar Wilde Also used the pseudonym Edgar Box. +++++++++++++++++++++++ Gore Vidal é um dos nomes centrais na história da literatura americana pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nascido em 1925, em Nova Iorque, estudou na Academia de Phillips Exeter (Estado de New Hampshire). O seu primeiro romance, Williwaw (1946), era uma história da guerra claramente influenciada pelo estilo de Hemingway. Embora grande parte da sua obra tenha a ver com o século XX americano, Vidal debruçou-se várias vezes sobre épocas recuadas, como, por exemplo, em A Search for the King (1950), Juliano (1964) e Creation (1981). Entre os seus temas de eleição está o mundo do cinema e, mais concretamente, os bastidores de Hollywood, que ele desmonta de forma satírica e implacável em títulos como Myra Breckinridge (1968), Myron (1975) e Duluth (1983). Senhor de um estilo exuberante, multifacetado e sempre surpreendente, publicou, em 1995, a autobiografia Palimpsest: A Memoir. As obras 'O Instituto Smithsonian' e 'A Idade do Ouro' encontram-se traduzidas em português. Neto do senador Thomas Gore, enteado do padrasto de Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, primo distante de Al Gore, Gore Vidal sempre se revelou um espelho crítico das grandezas e misérias dos EUA. Faleceu a 31 de julho de 2012, aos 86 anos, na sua casa em Hollywood, vítima de pneumonia.
Series
Books

The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
2001

Selected Essays
2007

The City and the Pillar
1948

Lincoln
1984

State of the Union
The Nation's Essays 1958-2008
2013

At Home
Essays 1982-1988
1987

United States
Essays 1952-1992
1993

The Essential Gore Vidal
1999

Williwaw
1946

I Told You So
Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener
2012

Matters of Fact and of Fiction
1977

A Thirsty Evil
1956

Point to Point Navigation
2006

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
1992

XXX
30 Porn-Star Portraits
2004

Imperial America
Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
2004

Duluth
1983

Empire
1987

Granta Portugal 5
Falhar Melhor
2015

The American Presidency
1998

Virgin Islands
1798

Homage to Daniel Shays
Collected Essays
1972

The Season of Comfort
1949

A Search for the King
1950

Live from Golgotha
1992

Myra Breckinridge
1968

Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
2003

The Golden Age
2000

Romulus
1962

The Smithsonian Institution
1998

Palimpsest
A Memoir
1995

Two Sisters
1970

The End of Liberty
2001

Burr
1973

Visit to a Small Planet
1956

Myron
1974

Washington, D.C.
1967

Vidal in Venice
1985

The Judgment of Paris
1952

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
How We Got to Be So Hated
2002

Myra Breckinridge/Myron
1968

A View from the Diners Club
1991

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
1982

Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987
1940

The Best Man
1960

1876
1976

Dreaming War
Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
2002

Kalki
1976

Rocking the Boat
1962

Julian
1964

Hollywood
1989

Creation
1981

Screening History
1992

Dark Green, Bright Red
1950

In a Yellow Wood
1947

Messiah
1954

An Evening with Richard Nixon
1972

Sexually Speaking
Collected Sex Writings
1999

Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
1969

Thieves Fall Out
1953

Snapshots in History's Glare
2009