Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, known better simply as Gore Vidal, (born October 3, 1925) is a well-known American "man of letters", a writer of novels, plays and essays, and a public figure for over fifty years.

Essays and Non-Fiction

• Rocking the Boat (1963)
• Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
• Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
• Homage to Daniel Shays (1973)
• Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
• The Second American Revolution (1982)
• Armageddon? (1987) (UK only)
• At Home (1988)
• A View From The Diner's Club (1991) (UK only)
• Screening History (1992) ISBN 0233988033
• Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1878825003
• United States: essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0767908066
• Palimpsest: a memoir (1995) ISBN 0679440380
• Virgin Islands (1997) (UK only)
• The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1878825151
• Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
• The Last Empire: essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 037572639X (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 156025405X
• Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1560255021
• Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0300101716
• Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004)

Plays

• Visit to a Small Planet (1957) ISBN 0822212110
• The Best Man (1960)
• On the March to the Sea (1960-1961, 2004)
• Romulus (adapted from Friedrich Duerrenmatt's play) (1962)
• Weekend (1968)
• Drawing Room Comedy (1970)
• An evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0394718690

Novels

• Williwaw (1946) ISBN 0226855856
• In a Yellow Wood (1947)
• The City and the Pillar (1948) ISBN 1400030374
• The Season of Comfort (1949) ISBN 0233989714
• A Search for the King (1950) ISBN 0345254554
• Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) ISBN 0233989137 (pseudoprophecy of the Guatemala coup of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War)
• The Judgment of Paris (1953) ISBN 0345334582
• Messiah (1955) ISBN 0141180390
• A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)
• Julian (1964) ISBN 037572706X
• Washington, D.C. (1967) ISBN 0316902578
• Myra Breckinridge (1968)
• Two Sisters (1970) ISBN 0434829587
• Burr (1973) ISBN 0375708731
• Myron (1975) ISBN 0586043004
• 1876 (1976) ISBN 0375708723
• Kalki (1978) ISBN 0141180374
• Creation (1981) ISBN 0349104751
• Duluth (1983) ISBN 0394527380
• Lincoln (1984) ISBN 0375708766
• Empire (1987) ISBN 037570874X
• Hollywood (1989) ISBN 0375708758
• Live from Golgotha: the Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992) ISBN 0140231196
• The Smithsonian Institution (1998) ISBN 0375501215
• The Golden Age (2000) ISBN 0375724818

Under Pseudonyms

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