Gore Vidal A Comprehensive Bibliography

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Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. Author of more than twenty novels-including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln - plus books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Vidal has been a leading American writer for more than half a century. The first comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal in nearly thirty years, this volume charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation. Divided into three sections-works by Vidal, Vidal in translation, and works about him-this bibliography cites all books, contributions to books and periodicals, theatrical plays, television plays, screenplays, and adaptations of his work into various media (e.g., films, miniseries, recorded books, e-books). It also chronicles the immense amount of criticism that Vidal has received in monographs, scholarly essays, newspaper coverage, book reviews, and elsewhere. All items are annotated, placing Vidal and his work in context and assessing each work's significance. Designed to promote the study of this prolific author's life and work, Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography will be of great interest to students and scholars of American literature and politics. Book jacket.