Gore Vidal was an American writer and screenwriter who worked in a wide variety of genres.
Non-fiction Books Rocking the Boat (1963) Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969) Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation) Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 (1972) Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977) Sex is Politics and Vice Versa (1979), limited edition by Sylvester & Orphanos Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981) Pink Triangle and Yellow Star: Essays 1976-1982 (1982) The Second American Revolution (1983) Vidal In Venice (1985) Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987) (UK only) At Home: Essays 1982-1988 (1988) (US only) A View From The Diners Club: Essays 1987-1991 (1991) (UK only) Screening History (1992) Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993) – National Book Award"National Book Awards – 1993". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-12.(With acceptance speech by Vidal, read by Harry Evans.)
Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997 (1997) (UK only) The American Presidency (1998) Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999) The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 (2001) (there is also a much shorter UK edition) Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014) Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015)
Articles "Notes on Television," The Writer, March 1957
Fiction
Novels Williwaw (1946) Also in Project Gutenberg In a Yellow Wood (1947) The City and the Pillar (1948) The Season of Comfort (1949) A Search for the King (1950) Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) (see "In the Lair of the Octopus" and Dreaming War) A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as "Katherine Everard" The Judgment of Paris (1952) Death in the Fifth Position (1952) under the pseudonym Edgar Box Thieves Fall Out (1953) under the pseudonym Cameron Kay Death Before Bedtime (1953) under the pseudonym Edgar Box Death Likes It Hot (1954) under the pseudonym Edgar Box Messiah (1954) Also at Project Gutenberg Julian (1964) Washington, D.C. (1967), first book in his Narratives of Empire series, Myra Breckinridge (1968) Two Sisters (1970) Burr (1973), second book in his Narratives of Empire series, Myron (1974) 1876 (1976), third book in his Narratives of Empire series, Kalki (1978) Creation (1981) Duluth (1983) Lincoln (1984), fourth book in his Narratives of Empire series, Empire (1987), fifth book in his Narratives of Empire series Hollywood (1990), sixth book in his Narratives of Empire series, Live From Golgotha (1992) The Smithsonian Institution (1998) The Golden Age (2000), seventh and final book in his Narratives of Empire series,
Short story collections A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories) Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) The anthology A Thirsty Evil (1956), with the additional short story "Clouds and Eclipses"
Plays Visit to a Small Planet (1957) The Best Man (1960) On the March to the Sea (1960–61, 2004) Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962) Weekend (1968) Drawing Room Comedy (1970) An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) On the March to the Sea (2005)
Screenplays and teleplays Climax!: A Farewell to Arms (1955); Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1955) (TV adaptations) The Best of Broadway (1955): TV adaptation of Stage Door The Catered Affair (1956) I Accuse! (1958) The Left Handed Gun (1958) The Scapegoat (1959) Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Best Man (1964) Is Paris Burning? (1966) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) Caligula (1979) Dress Gray (1986) The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited) Billy the Kid (1989) The Palermo Connection (1989)
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