Gore Vidal
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving Ame
Vidal in 1948
Vidal at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, 2008
Vidal's historical novel 1876 (1976)
Vidal (second from right) supporting the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike
Myra Breckinridge
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Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and
Gore Vidal
…recreates the world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–363), the Roman emperor who attempted to reestablish Roman polytheism to counter Christianity. Myra Breckinridge (1968) is a social satire that explores the mutability of gender roles and sexual orientation as social constructs established by social mores. In Burr…
Cover of the first edition