He left his entire estate to Harvard University, which he did not attend
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The infamous feud between novelist Norman Mailer and writer Gore Vidal comes to a head in a battle of wit, sarcasm, and condescension with the audience and J Ten years after Gore Vidal's death, Matt Kapp, the writer's one-time colleague, remembers the prickly master
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In the 1960s, he writes, Wolfe made people “feel self-conscious Gore Vidal came from a generation of novelists whose fiction gave them a political platform
He is angry at injustices, power The infamous feud between novelist Norman Mailer and writer Gore Vidal comes to a head in a battle of wit, sarcasm, and condescension with the audience and J Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal, the American writer, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died aged 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin's poise
This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals
That is taken as read in litcrit circles these days, and it will take a prodigious revisionist to make a case for the overblown novels and Gore Vidal was driven, brilliant, irascible, irreverent
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
“[Gore] would walk around the home naked without even batting an eyelid
In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history and such satirical novels as Myra Breckinridge (1968) and Duluth