"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, ...

(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 ...

How many people under age 50 even recognize the name Gore Vidal? No, he’s not television’s onetime horror host Count Gore De Vol. Possibly some millennials will recall a few of Vidal’s more famous ...

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, Doubleday Books, 480 pages. $35. A chance meeting in Italy in the mid-1980s soon blossomed into a friendship that survived despite Vidal’s notorious prickliness ...

American writer Gore Vidal, whose work spanned the fields of literature, theater, politics, and beyond, died of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 86. In his writing, Vidal ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, ...

The "Igby Goes Down" screenwriter and director on the private life of the novelist, screenwriter and provocateur who died July 31 at age 86: "He loved conversation, and he loved people who could ...

ROME — Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is playing writer Gore Vidal in a new Netflix original biopic, “Gore,” which is in production in Italy. US director Michael Hoffman (“The Last Station”) is helming the ...

REMEMBRANCE: Burr Steers on the private life of the novelist, screenwriter and provocateur. By As told to Gregg Kilday "As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing -- not art, not ...

"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 ...