Gore Vidal Kimdir?

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (d. 3 Ekim 1925 ' ö. 31 Temmuz 2012), ABD'li romancı, oyun yazarı, deneme yazarı, senarist ve siyasi aktivist.

Eşcinselliği açıkça konu eden ilk büyük Amerikan romanlarından biri olaran Kent ve Tuz (The City and the Pillar, 1948) adlı üçüncü romanıyla anaakım eleştirmenlerin tepkisini toplamıştır.

Deneme ve düzyazı

Rocking the Boat (1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
Sex, Death and Money (1969)
Homage to Daniel Shays (1972)
Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
Views from a Window (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) ' Ulusal Kitap Ödülü
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)


Oyun

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
The Best Man (1960)
On the March to the Sea (1960'1961, 2004)
Romulus (uyarlama) (1962)
Weekend (1968)
Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970)
On the March to the Sea (2005)


Roman ve öykü

Williwaw (1946)
In a Yellow Wood (1947)
The City and the Pillar (1948) (Kent ve Tuz, Helikopter Yayınları, 2010; Altıkırkbeş Yayınları, 1998)
The Season of Comfort (1949)
A Search for the King (1950)
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950)
The Judgment of Paris (1952)
Messiah (1954)
A Thirsty Evil (1956) (öyküler)
Julian (1964) (İmparator Julian, Bakış Yayınları, 2000)
Washington, D.C. (1967)
Myra Breckinridge (1968)
Two Sisters (1970)
Burr (1973) (Düello, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2005)
Myron (1974)
1876 (1976) (1876, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2009)
Kalki (1978)
Creation (1981) (Yaratılış, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2009; Ben Cyrus, Zerdüşt'ün Torunu, Kaknüs Yayınları, 1999)
Duluth (1983)
Lincoln (1984) (Lincoln, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2007)
Empire (1987) (İmparatorluk, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2011)
Hollywood (1990)
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992) (Golgota'dan Canlı Yayın: Yeniden Yazılan İncil, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2005)
The Smithsonian Institution (1998)
The Golden Age (2000)
Clouds and Eclipses (2006) (öyküler)


Senaryo

Climax!: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1954) (TV uyarlaması)
The Catered Affair (1956)
I Accuse! (1958)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Ben Hur (1959) (adı geçmiyor)
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) (adı geçmiyor)
Billy the Kid (1989)
Dimenticare Palermo (1989)


Mahlas altında eserleri

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