5/9/2023 0 Comments Lincoln by gore vidalVidal took great pleasure in being a public figure. Perhaps more than any other American writer except Norman Mailer or Truman Capote, Mr. And he could always be counted on for a spur-of-the-moment aphorism, put-down or sharply worded critique of American foreign policy. For a while he was even a contract writer at MGM. He also wrote plays, television dramas and screenplays. He published some 25 novels, two memoirs and several volumes of stylish, magisterial essays. Few American writers have been more versatile or gotten more mileage from their talent. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said. Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003 after years of living in Ravello, Italy.
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