| Gore Vidal AKA Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr.
Born: 3-Oct-1925 Birthplace: West Point, NY
Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Visit to a Small Planet Military service: US Army Reserve (1943-46) Father: Gene Vidal Mother: Nina Gore (alcoholic) Boyfriend: Jimmie Trimble (d. 1-Jun-1945, Battle of Iwo Jima) Slept with: Jack Kerouac
High School: St. Albans School, Washington, DC High School: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
The Times Literary Supplement Contributor Academy of Achievement (2006) America First Committee The Independent Institute Advisory Board Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholar National Secular Society Honorary Associate National Book Award for Nonfiction 1993 for United States: Essays 1952-1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Episode in a TV Series, Suspense, "Smoke" (1954) Knee Replacement Risk Factors: Obesity
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR The U.S. vs John Lennon (31-Aug-2006) Himself Inside Deep Throat (11-Feb-2005) Himself Why We Fight (2005) Himself Gattaca (24-Oct-1997) Shadow Conspiracy (25-Jan-1997) The Celluloid Closet (13-Sep-1995) Himself With Honors (29-Apr-1994) Bob Roberts (4-Sep-1992)
Author of books:
Williwaw (1946, novel) The City and the Pillar (1948, novel) Julian (1964, novel) Washington, D.C. (1967, novel) Myra Breckenridge (1968, novel) Reflections on a Sinking Ship (1969, essays) Burr (1973, novel) 1876 (1976, novel) Creation (1982, novel) The Second American Revolution (1982, essays) Lincoln (1984, novel) Empire (1987, novel) Armageddon (1987, essays) Hollywood (1990, novel) Live from Golgotha (1992, novel) Screening History (1992, essays) United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993, essays) Palimpsest (1995, memoir) The Smithsonian Institution (1998, novel) The Golden Age (2000, novel) The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001, essays)
Wrote plays:
Visit to a Small Planet (1955) The Best Man (1960)
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