Gore vidal

Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer, who first met the late writer Gore Vidal as Vidal’s editor for this magazine, expounds on the years the author spent in Ravello—the postcard-ready part of Italy’s Amalfi Coast he called his “perch.”

Beyond certainty, in slacks

Without attempting to whitewash his subject, Parini, who was friends with Vidal, remains intelligently critical throughout.

Gore Vidal on the left bank of Paris by Clifford Coffin, 1949

Was his famous detachment all just an act?

Here, we remember Vidal with some stirring quotes from an interview we printed in 1975, showcasing him at his most “prolific, elegant and acerbic."

The moment one sets foot on Vidal’s estate one feels its tonic effect. Hewn out of a mountainside a thousand feet above the Mediterranean, the eight acres of terraced land present staggering views of sea and sky, of tiny coastal towns and toylike dwellings painted in pastel hues that change with every passing hour. The whitewashed villa clings to a craggy cliffface, as if to defy gravity and graphically account for its name—La Rondinaia, The Swallow’s Nest. #gorevidal

Like Grandy, future essayist, playwright, and distinguished public figure Gore Vidal attended the oh-so-posh Phillips Exeter Academy in the mid-1940s, rubbing elbows with other future distinguished young gentlemen and generally prepping for a posh, public life.

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Harold Lang on beach with Gore Vidal.

Anaïs Nin & Gore Vidal, ca. 1946.

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“Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right.” – Charles McGrath on Gore Vidal. Gore Vidal&…

The compilation shows the writer's mastery of the form.

One of America’s sharpest personalities spent his last decade drunk and lonely, but remained fiery and lusty till the end. His friends, employees, and relatives recount.

Living: The Truth About Gore Vidal—Right from Gore Vidal. Article by Curtis Bill Pepper. Photo by Leombruno-Bodi-Lami. Vogue, December 1974. (Page 2/5)

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) American writer and playwright.

Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday.