Gore Vidal
Si Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (Oktobre 3, 1925 – Hulyo 31, 2012) sarong Amerikanong autor, dramatista, parasurat saysay asin istoryang pampelikula saka aktibista sa pulitika. Mahigos na gayong parasurat, siya nakahaman nin 25 nobela, lampas 200 na saysay asin magkapirang drama. 

An saiyang ikatolong nobela, an The City and the Pillar (1948) nag'ani nin grabeng tuyaw sa publiko huli ta iyo ini an saro sa mayor na nobelang Amerikano na naghayag asin nagbiklad kan istorya nin pagkabakla, bagay na dai pa desenteng gibohon kan mga panahon na idto. Siya man nagdalagan duwang beses sa eleksyon asin saro man siyang kritiko sa pulitika.

Mga enot na panahon 

Si Vidal namundag Eugene Luther Gore Vidal sa West Point, Nuweba York, iyo'iyong aki ni Tenyente Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) asin Nina Gore (1903-1978).  Namundag siya sa Cadet Hospital kan United States Military Academy, kun saen an saiyang ama sarong maestro sa auronautiko. Susog sa artikulong "West Point and the Third Loyalty", na saiyang sinurat para sa The New York Review of Books (Oktobre 18, 1973) siya nagdesider na maapod Gore sa pagtaong onra niya sa saiyang lolong maternal, si Thomas Gore, na sarong senador Demokratiko para sa Oklahoma.

Karera sa pagsurat 

Si Vidal, na sinabi kan saro na kritiko sa Newsweek na iyo an "the best all-around American man of letters since Edmund Wilson," nagpoon kan saiyang pagsurat sa edad desinwebe (19) kan taon 1946 kan napalagda an sarong nobelang panmilitar tituladong Williwaw na an istorya saiyang ibinatay sa eksperensya niya sa toka niya duman sa Alaskan Harbor Detachment. Ining istorya kaini manongod sa ika-2 Gerang Pankinaban asin nagputok na gayo sa mga parabasa. Pakalihis duwang taon kani, taon 1948, ipinalagda niya an The City and the Pillar na nag'ukag nin labilabing kontrobersya huli sa hayaghayag na pagbiklad niya kan mga gawegawe kan mga bakla. An nobelang ini saiyang idinolot ki "J.T.". Pirang dekada pa, kan an sarong magasin nagbuyagyag kan mga huringhuding kun siisay baga an J.T., si Vidal pigtuga' na ini an poon-kangaranan kan saiyang kailusyon soboot na si James "Jimmy" Trimble III, na nagadan sa Batalya sa Iwo Jima kan Marso 1, 1946. Si Vidal inako niya na si Trimble sana man an tunay na personang saiyang namo'tan.

Bibliograpiya

Mga saysay asin prosa 

 Rocking the Boat (1963)
 Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
 Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
 Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
 Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
 Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
 The Second American Revolution (1983)
 Vidal In Venice (1985) ISBN 0-671-60691-3
 Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
 At Home (1988)
 A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
 Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
 Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
 United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6 —National Book Award
 Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0-679-44038-0
 Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
 The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
 Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
 The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (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) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
 Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
 Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
 Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
 Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
 The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
 Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9

Mga pasali 
 Visit to a Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0-8222-1211-0
 The Best Man (1960)
 On the March to the Sea (1960–1961, 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) ISBN 0-394-71869-0
 On the March to the Sea (2005)

Mga nobela 
 Williwaw (1946) ISBN 0-226-85585-6
 In a Yellow Wood (1947)
 The City and the Pillar (1948) ISBN 1-4000-3037-4
 The Season of Comfort (1949) ISBN 0-233-98971-4
 A Search for the King (1950) ISBN 0-345-25455-4
 Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) ISBN 0-233-98913-7 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
 The Judgment of Paris (1952) ISBN 0-345-33458-2
 Messiah (1954) ISBN 0-14-118039-0
 A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)
 Julian (1964) ISBN 0-375-72706-X
 Washington, D.C. (1967) ISBN 0-316-90257-8
 Myra Breckinridge (1968) ISBN 1-125-97948-8
 Two Sisters (1970) ISBN 0-434-82958-7
 Burr (1973) ISBN 0-375-70873-1
 Myron (1974) ISBN 0-586-04300-4
 1876 (1976) ISBN 0-375-70872-3
 Kalki (1978) ISBN 0-14-118037-4
 Creation (1981) ISBN 0-349-10475-1
 Duluth (1983) ISBN 0-394-52738-0
 Lincoln (1984) ISBN 0-375-70876-6
 Empire (1987) ISBN 0-375-70874-X
 Hollywood (1990) ISBN 0-375-70875-8
 Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992) ISBN 0-14-023119-6
 The Smithsonian Institution (1998) ISBN 0-375-50121-5
 The Golden Age (2000) ISBN 0-375-72481-8
 Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) (short stories, this is the same collection as A Thirsty Evil (1956), with one previously unpublished short story – Clouds and Eclipses – added)

Mga pampelikulang istorya 

 Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV adaptation)
 The Catered Affair (1956)
 I Accuse! (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)
 Dimenticare Palermo (1989)

Mga tokdang natago sa ibang pangaran 

 A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as Katherine Everard
 Thieves Fall Out (1953) as Cameron Kay
 Death Before Bedtime (1953) as Edgar Box
 Death in the Fifth Position (1952) as Edgar Box
 Death Likes It Hot (1954) as Edgar Box

Mga pagpaheling sa media 

 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976 - 7 episodes) -- komo siya
 Profile of a Writer: Gore Vidal – RM Productions (1979 dokumentaryong pelikula)
 Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No (1983 dokumentaryong pelikula)
 Weekend In Wallop (1984)
 Vidal in Venice – Antelope Films for Channel Four Television (1987 dokumentaryong pelikula)
 Bob Roberts – as Senator Brickley Paiste (1992 na pelikula)
 With Honors – Plays the pessimistic and right-wing Prof. Pitkannan (1994 na pelikula)
 The Celluloid Closet (1995 documentary film)Gattaca – Nagpapel bilang Direktor Josef sa science-fiction na pelikula (1997)
Shadow Conspiracy - Pigpapel niya bilang Kongresista Paige, Political Thriller (1997)The Education of Gore Vidal (2003) Dokumentaryo ki Deborah Dickson, na'ayre sa E.U. PBSThinking XXX (2004 dokumentaryo)Da Ali G Show (2004 TV)Why We Fight (2005 pelikula)Inside Deep Throat (2005 pelikula)One Bright Shining Moment (2005 pelikula)Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005 spoof trailer)Foreign Correspondent – with former NSW premier Bob CarrThe U.S. Versus John Lennon (2006 pelikula)
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra konyerto, August 2, 2007 – Narrated Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait (conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas) from a wheelchair.The Henry Rollins Show (2007 TV)
"The Simpsons" episode: "Moe'N'a Lisa"
"Family Guy" episode: "Mother Tucker"
Alex Jones radio show
Jon Wiener's radio program in Los AngelesTerrorstorm: Final Cut Special Edition (2007)Lateline – ABC Television Australia Interview (May 2, 2008)Democracy Now – interview: on the Bush Presidency, History and the "United States of Amnesia" (May 14, 2008)The South Bank Show (May 18, 2008)Hardtalk – BBC News (May 22, 2008)The Andrew Marr Show (May 25, 2008)
The US is not a republic anymore (June, 2008)
Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (June, 2008)
Interview on the BBC's US Presidential Election Coverage with David Dimbleby (04/11/08)
 "Writer Against the Grain": Gore Vidal in conversation with Jay Parini at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar (audio, 59:09)Real Time with Bill Maher (April 10, 2009)Shrink (2009 film)"Gore Vidal's America" on The Real News Network (December 24, 2010)What's My Line?'' nagtatagatunga na panelista (kaamayan kan mga 1960)

Kagadanan 

Si Vidal nagadan sa saiyang harong Hollywood Hills, California, mga 6:45 p.m. PDT Hulyo 31, 2012 huli sa komplikasyon sa pneumonia sa edad na 86.

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