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 ...

Writer and cultural critic Gore Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills Tuesday from complications with pneumonia, his nephew told the New York Times. He was 86. Born in 1925 at the West Point ...

Vidal wrote more than two-dozen novels and an equal number of nonfiction books in a career that spanned six decades. He was also a screenwriter,... Gore Vidal, American Writer And Cultural Critic, ...

Three years after Gore Vidal's death, his estate in Los Angeles has been updated and relisted for $5.7 million. Gone are some of Vidal's unique touches -- ceiling artwork, heavy velvet curtains, and ...

Gore Vidal said that he hoped to be remembered as “the person who wrote the best sentences of his time”. It was a typically vainglorious boast from an author whose finest writing remains overshadowed ...

Gore Vidal, the prolific scribe who died of complications of pneumonia, on Tuesday left an indelible legacy that few authors would ever reach. Mediums didn't seem to throw the writer. His effortless ...

Check out the new trailer for documentary “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,” set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28). Directed by Nicholas Wrathall, the film features ...

LOS ANGELES -- Gore Vidal, who has had a residence on Los Angeles' Westside for more than 30 years, has put his longtime home in Italy on the market at about $17 million. The writer and political ...

Gore Vidal was not only a talented writer, but also an icon of true literary multi-tasking, tackling several writing forms and excelling at all of them. Gore Vidal passed away on Tuesday at his ...

Playwright and novelist Gore Vidal, perhaps best known for his controversial work The City and the Pillar, died on Tuesday at the age of 86. Vidal's nephew Burr Steers tells the Los Angeles Times that ...