AKA: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Cameron Kay, Edgar Box
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 10/03/1925
Birthplace: West Point, New York, USA
biography
One of the grand old liberal belletrists, this essayist and novelist also has a knack for writing best sellers and scripts, including ones for such film classics as "Ben-Hur" (1959), "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959), and the decidedly less-than-classic "Is Paris Burning?" (1966). His 1968 fictional spoof of Hollywood "Myra Breckinridge" became a notorious 1970 film. Equally adept as a writer of popular historical biographies, campy melodramas and urbane political commentary (a proclivity that led to endless brouhahas with his "bete noir" Norman Mailer), Gore Vidal even took a few jabs at
Served in US Army Reserve Corps in the Aleutian Islands
1946
Published first novel, "Williwaw"
1948
Third novel, "The City and the Pillar", caused controversy because its hero was a homosexual
1951
Subject of a chapter in John W Aldridge's book "After a Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars" which sharply criticized his work
