
Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives, and later in 1982 to the United States Senate.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- West Point
- Educated at
- Phillips Exeter AcademySidwell Friends SchoolSt. Albans School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Book Award🏆 Edgar Awards🏆 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres🏆 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Must one have a heart of stone to read The Ballad of Reading Gaol without laughing? And did not De Profundis plumb for all time the shallows of the most reported love affair of the past hundred years,…"
"The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love."
"The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to…"
"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
"In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling."
"I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting."
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Timeline
1925
Born
Birth2012
Died
Death
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