(Reuters) - Writer Gore Vidal, whose acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture in novels and essays made him one of the best-known American authors of his generation, died on Tuesday ...

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In 1991, John Updike reviewed "The Impossible H. L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories." Updike, apparently, felt that the matter of Gore Vidal's rather unfortunate introduction to ...

LOS ANGELES -- Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age ...

He’s been insulted by William F. Buckley and head-butted by Norman Mailer. Al Gore is a cousin, Amelia Earhart a family friend, Jack Kennedy a relative by marriage. He’s written 25 novels and more ...

"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...

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In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing -- tall, handsome and composed -- and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an ...

Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday, his nephew said ...