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List of works by Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal
was an American writer and screenwriter who worked in a wide variety of genres.
Contents
Non-fiction
Books
Articles
Fiction
Novels
Short story collections
Plays
Screenplays and teleplays
References
Non-fiction
Books
Rocking the Boat
(1963)
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
(1969)
Sex, Death and Money
(1969) (paperback compilation)
Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972
(1972)
ISBN
0-394-71950-6
Matters of Fact and of Fiction
(1977)
Sex is Politics and Vice Versa
(1979), limited edition by
Sylvester & Orphanos
Views from a Window
Co-Editor (1981)
The Second American Revolution
(1983)
Vidal In Venice
(1985)
ISBN
0-671-60691-3
Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987
(1987) (UK only)
At Home: Essays 1982-1988
(1988) (US only)
A View From The Diner's Club: Essays 1987-1991
(1991) (UK only)
Screening History
(1992)
ISBN
0-233-98803-3
Decline and Fall of the American Empire
(1992)
ISBN
1-878825-00-3
United States: Essays 1952–1992
(1993)
ISBN
0-7679-0806-6
–
National Book Award
[
1
]
Palimpsest: A Memoir
. New York: Random House. 1995.
ISBN
9780679440383
. Retrieved
16 February
2020
.
Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997
(1997) (UK only)
The American Presidency
(1998)
ISBN
1-878825-15-1
Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
(1999)
The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000
(2001)
ISBN
0-375-72639-X
(there is also a much shorter UK edition)
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated
, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002)
ISBN
1-56025-405-X
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta
, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002)
ISBN
1-56025-502-1
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
(2003)
ISBN
0-300-10171-6
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
(2004)
ISBN
1-56025-744-X
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
(2006)
ISBN
0-385-51721-1
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
(2008)
ISBN
0-385-52484-6
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare
(2009)
ISBN
0-8109-5049-9
I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener
(2013)
ISBN
978-1-61902-174-7
Gore Vidal History of the National Security State
, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014)
Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates
(2015)
ISBN
978-1-942531-12-8
Articles
"Notes on Television,"
The Writer
, March 1957
Fiction
Novels
Williwaw
(1946)
ISBN
0-226-85585-6
Also in
Project Gutenberg
In a Yellow Wood
(1947)
The City and the Pillar
(1948)
ISBN
1-4000-3037-4
The Season of Comfort
(1949)
ISBN
0-233-98971-4
A Search for the King
(1950)
ISBN
0-345-25455-4
Dark Green, Bright Red
(1950)
ISBN
0-233-98913-7
(see "In the Lair of the Octopus" and
Dreaming War
)
A Star's Progress
(aka
Cry Shame!
) (1950) as "Katherine Everard"
The Judgment of Paris
(1952)
ISBN
0-345-33458-2
Death in the Fifth Position
(1952) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
Thieves Fall Out
(1953) under the pseudonym Cameron Kay
[
2
]
Death Before Bedtime
(1953) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
Death Likes It Hot
(1954) under the pseudonym Edgar Box
Messiah
(1954)
ISBN
0-14-118039-0
Also at
Project Gutenberg
Julian
(1964)
ISBN
0-375-72706-X
Washington, D.C.
(1967), first book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-316-90257-8
Myra Breckinridge
(1968)
ISBN
1-125-97948-8
Two Sisters
(1970)
ISBN
0-434-82958-7
Burr
(1973), second book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-375-70873-1
Myron
(1974)
ISBN
0-586-04300-4
1876
(1976), third book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-375-70872-3
Kalki
(1978)
ISBN
0-14-118037-4
Creation
(1981)
ISBN
0-349-10475-1
Duluth
(1983)
ISBN
0-394-52738-0
Lincoln
(1984), fourth book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-375-70876-6
Empire
(1987), fifth book in his
Narratives of Empire
series
ISBN
0-375-70874-X
Hollywood
(1990), sixth book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-375-70875-8
Live From Golgotha
(1992)
ISBN
0-14-023119-6
The Smithsonian Institution
(1998)
ISBN
0-375-50121-5
The Golden Age
(2000), seventh and final book in his
Narratives of Empire
series,
ISBN
0-375-72481-8
Short story collections
A Thirsty Evil
(1956) (short stories)
Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box
(1978)
ISBN
0-394-50117-9
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
(2006) The anthology
A Thirsty Evil
(1956), with the additional short story "Clouds and Eclipses"
Plays
Visit to a Small Planet
(1957)
ISBN
0-8222-1211-0
The Best Man
(1960)
On the March to the Sea
(1960–61, 2004)
Romulus
(adapted from
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
's 1950 play
Romulus der Große
) (1962)
Weekend
(1968)
Drawing Room Comedy
(1970)
An Evening with Richard Nixon
(1970)
ISBN
0-394-71869-0
On the March to the Sea
(2005)
Screenplays and teleplays
Climax!
:
A Farewell to Arms
(1955);
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
(1955) (TV adaptations)
The Best of Broadway
(1955): TV adaptation of
Stage Door
The Catered Affair
(1956)
I Accuse!
(1958)
The Left Handed Gun
(1958)
The Scapegoat
(1959)
Ben Hur
(1959) (uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer
(1959)
The Best Man
(1964)
Is Paris Burning?
(1966)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
(1970)
Caligula
(1979)
Dress Gray
(1986)
The Sicilian
(1987) (uncredited)
Billy the Kid
(1989)
Dimenticare Palermo
(1989)
References
↑
"National Book Awards
– 1993"
.
National Book Foundation
. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
(With acceptance speech by Vidal, read by Harry Evans.)
↑
Bayard, Louis (April 12, 2015),
"Review: Gore Vidal's 'Thieves Fall Out', Where Pulp Fiction and Hard Reality Met"
,
The New York Times
, retrieved
April 12,
2015
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List of works
Plays
Visit to a Small Planet
(1957)
The Best Man
(1960)
Weekend
(1968)
An Evening with Richard Nixon
(1972)
Novels
Williwaw
(1946)
The City and the Pillar
(1948)
Dark Green, Bright Red
(1950)
Messiah
(1954)
Julian
(1964)
Washington, D.C.
(1967)
Myra Breckinridge
(1968)
Two Sisters
(1970)
Burr
(1973)
Myron
(1974)
1876
(1976)
Kalki
(1978)
Creation
(1981)
Duluth
(1983)
Lincoln
(1984)
Empire
(1987)
Hollywood
(1990)
Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
(1992)
The Smithsonian Institution
(1998)
The Golden Age
(2000)
Screenplays
The Catered Affair
(1956)
I Accuse!
(1958)
The Left Handed Gun
(1958)
The Scapegoat
(1959)
Ben Hur
(1959, uncredited)
Suddenly, Last Summer
(1959)
The Best Man
(1964)
Is Paris Burning?
(1966)
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
(1970)
Caligula
(1979)
Dress Gray
(1986)
The Sicilian
(1987, uncredited)
Billy the Kid
(1989)
The Palermo Connection
(1989)
Related
Eugene Luther Vidal
(father)
Nina S. Gore
(mother)
Nina Auchincloss Straight
(half-sister)
Narratives of Empire
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