Gore Vidal
Washington, DC
N 38° 56.864 W 077° 00.602
The grave of non-fiction author, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Gore Vidal is located in section E of Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC. His grave, and his partner Howard R. Auster, is marked by a rectangular granite ledger stone. The ledger stone is inscribed:
GORE VIDAL
1925 - 2012
HOWARD R. AUSTER
1929 - 2003
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Gore Vidal was born into an upper class family in West Point, NY on October 3, 1925. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the War he embarked on what was to become a prolific literary career. He published his first novel Williwaw in 1946. His most famous novel was Myra Breckinridge which was published in 1968. In additions to novels he wrote many works of non-fiction, plays and screenplays. In 2009, he won the annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
Wikipedia lists the following works of fiction (novels, plays and screenplays) by Gore Vidal Link
Non-fiction:
Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Sex is Politics and Vice Versa (1979)
Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution (1983)
Vidal In Venice (1985)
Armageddon? (1987)
At Home (1988)
A View From The Diner's Club (1991)
Screening History (1992)
Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993)
Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995).
Virgin Islands (1997)
The American Presidency (1998)
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated (2002)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, (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)
Novels:
Williwaw (1946)
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)
A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950)
The Judgment of Paris (1952)
Death in the Fifth Position (1952)
Thieves Fall Out (1953)
Death Before Bedtime (1953)
Death Likes It Hot (1954)
Messiah (1954)
A Thirsty Evil (1956)
Julian (1964)
Washington, D.C. (1967)
Myra Breckinridge (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (1973)
Myron (1974)
1876 (1976)
Kalki (1978)
Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978)
Creation (1981)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (1984)
Empire (1987)
Hollywood (1990)
Live From Golgotha (1992)
The Smithsonian Institution (1998)
The Golden Age (2000)
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006)
The anthology A Thirsty Evil (1956)
Plays:
Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960–61, 2004)
Romulus (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970)
On the March to the Sea (2005)
Screenplays and teleplays:
A Farewell to Arms (1955)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1955)
The Best of Broadway (1955)
The Catered Affair (1956)
I Accuse! (1958)
The Left Handed Gun (1958)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Ben Hur (1959)
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)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Dimenticare Palermo (1989)
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