"Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006," by Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 288 pages, $26 hardcover. This meandering but soulful sequel to Vidal's pointillist 1995 memoir, "Palimpset," isn't half ...

Gore Vidal author and playwright died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt writes: When I learned of the death of Gore Vidal last ...

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 to West Point aeronautics instructor Gene Vidal and his wife Nina. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma. He is ...

"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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