Gore Vidal
American novelist, essayist, and playwright whose historical novels Burr and Lincoln reinvented the American political novel. His essays are among the most celebrated in American literature. He was a central figure of American intellectual life for fifty years.
Works
- BurrVice President Aaron Burr's fictionalized account of American frontier and intrigue
- LincolnImagined biography of Abraham Lincoln through accounts of those who knew him
- Myra BreckinridgeWoman transitions and navigates sexual politics in satirical Hollywood narrative
- The City and the PillarNovel of forbidden same-sex love navigating 1940s America's closeted culture
- PalimpsestVidal's memoir recounting life, sexuality and encounters with literary figures