Full name: Gore Vidal: A Biography

Author: Fred Kaplan Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385477031 0385477031

Novelist, culture critic, essayist, satirist, and cynic--in this vastly entertaining biography, Gore Vidal's multifaceted personality is brought to life as Kaplan illuminates this literary giant with accuracy, insight and wit. 50 illustrations throughout. Similar books: Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Tom by Lyle Leverich The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning Eudora Welty by Suzanne Marrs A Rage to Live by Mary S. Lovell A Pilgrim in the Ruins by Jay Tolson There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson