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Vidal in 2009
Gore Vidal was an American writer and screenwriter who worked in a wide variety of genres.
Non-fiction
Books
- Rocking the Boat (1963)
- Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
- Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
- Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 (1972)
ISBN
0-394-71950-6
- Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
- Sex is Politics and Vice Versa (1979), limited edition by
Sylvester & Orphanos
- Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
- The Second American Revolution (1983)
- Vidal In Venice (1985)
ISBN
0-671-60691-3
- Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987) (UK only)
- At Home: Essays 1982-1988 (1988) (US only)
- A View From The Diner's Club: Essays 1987-1991 (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
[1]
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Palimpsest: A Memoir. New York: Random House. 1995.
ISBN
9780679440383. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997 (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
- I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013)
ISBN
978-1-61902-174-7
- Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014)
- Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015)
ISBN
978-1-942531-12-8
Articles
Fiction
Novels
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Williwaw (1946)
ISBN
0-226-85585-6
- In a Yellow Wood (1947)
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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
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Dark Green, Bright Red (1950)
ISBN
0-233-98913-7 (see "In the Lair of the Octopus" and Dreaming War)
- A Star's Progress (aka Cry Shame!) (1950) as "Katherine Everard"
- The Judgment of Paris (1952)
ISBN
0-345-33458-2
- Death in the Fifth Position (1952) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
- Thieves Fall Out (1953) under the pseudonym Cameron Kay
[2]
- Death Before Bedtime (1953) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
- Death Likes It Hot (1954) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
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Messiah (1954)
ISBN
0-14-118039-0
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Julian (1964)
ISBN
0-375-72706-X
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Washington, D.C. (1967), first book in his
Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-316-90257-8
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Myra Breckinridge (1968)
ISBN
1-125-97948-8
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Two Sisters (1970)
ISBN
0-434-82958-7
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Burr (1973), second book in his Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-375-70873-1
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Myron (1974)
ISBN
0-586-04300-4
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1876 (1976), third book in his Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-375-70872-3
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Kalki (1978)
ISBN
0-14-118037-4
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Creation (1981)
ISBN
0-349-10475-1
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Duluth (1983)
ISBN
0-394-52738-0
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Lincoln (1984), fourth book in his Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-375-70876-6
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Empire (1987), fifth book in his Narratives of Empire series
ISBN
0-375-70874-X
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Hollywood (1990), sixth book in his Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-375-70875-8
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Live From Golgotha (1992)
ISBN
0-14-023119-6
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The Smithsonian Institution (1998)
ISBN
0-375-50121-5
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The Golden Age (2000), seventh and final book in his Narratives of Empire series,
ISBN
0-375-72481-8
Short story collections
- A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)
- Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978)
ISBN
0-394-50117-9
- Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) The anthology A Thirsty Evil (1956), with the additional short story "Clouds and Eclipses"
Plays
Screenplays and teleplays
References