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Gore Vidal United States of America    PWF 2001

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has written over twenty novels, five plays, screenplays, short stories, and over two hundred essays while remaining a political activist, twice running for Congress and consciously lamenting the “United States of Amnesia”.

His novels include The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Duluth, Live from Golgotha and The Smithsonian Institution. His collected essays, United States, won the National Book Award in 1993. Palimpsest, a memoir, was published in 1995. The Golden Age,  published in 2000, is the seventh and final novel in his best-selling series Narratives of Empire, covering the history of the United States. The Best Man, his 1960 prize-winning play, has returned to Broadway. “Even if I am wrong, I am wrong for the right reasons.”

Gore Vidal died at 86 in 2012.