Gore Vidal: Gore Vidal Dies at 86; Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer

Books | Gore Vidal | Gore Vidal has died. As a younger man I found his heterodox views bracing, but I would commend to readers two books Vidal wrote which I feel often get forgotten.Gore Vidal, the novelist, essayist and playwright, was also a literary combatant.In March 2003, as U.S. forces were pouring into Iraq, I interviewed Gore Vidal at his elegant home in the Hollywood Hills. The conflict's opening days hadn't gone quite as smoothly as some Pentagon planners had anticipated,

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