![]() ![]() ![]() And he could use it to either entertain or intimidate. He never married and for decades shared a villa in Italy with companion Howard Austen. Gore Vidal Remembered By Nephew Burr Steers The 'Igby Goes Down' screenwriter and director on the private life of the novelist, screenwriter and provocateur who died July 31 at age 86: 'He loved. He used his home like a stage set, says filmmaker and writer Matt Tyrnauer, Vidal’s literary executor. Vidal alleged that he had sampled every major drug, once. His works included hundreds of essays novels “Lincoln” and “Myra Breckenridge” the groundbreaking “The City and the Pillar,” among the first novels about openly gay characters and the Tony-nominated play “The Best Man,” revived on Broadway in 2012. Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for “quite a while,” he said.Īlong with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Vidal was among the last generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities - fixtures on talk shows and in gossip columns, personalities of such size and appeal that even those who hadn’t read their books knew who they were. Tuesday of complications from pneumonia, Burr Steers said. Vidal, 86, died at his home at about 6:45 p.m. HOLLYWOOD - Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, his nephew said Tuesday. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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