About Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal Gore Vidal

Birthday

1925-10-03

Place of Birth

West Point, New York, USA

Biography

Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and liberal political activist. Early in his career he wrote The City and the Pillar (1948), which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. He also ran for political office twice and served as a longtime political critic.