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Gore Vidal: Graceful writer and gadfly The celebrated author, known for his urbanity and wit, had a literary career spanning more than 60 years. He died Tuesday at age 86.
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Vidal won the National Book Award for "United States," a 1993 volume of essays, political polemics and autobiographical reminiscences.
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April, 1950
Movie star Ella Raines, right, in conversation with New York socialite Gore Vidal at the Stork Club in New York City.
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Aug. 18, 1960
Gore Vidal sits on the lawn of his Hudson River mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y.,
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Aug. 18, 1960
John F. Kennedy, right, and Gore Vidal.
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June 22, 1961
Author Gore Vidal testifies before the Federal Communications Commission hearing in New York to give his views on what is wrong with television programming. Vidal said he wrote about 20 plays for TV in 1954-55 but has written only two for TV since because of restrictions in subject matter.
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April 5, 1964
Screen, stage and civic notables packed the Coronet Theatre in New York for the invitational world premiere of "The Best Man," the film version of Gore Vidal's stage success. Among the headliners present were Gore Vidal and Edie Adams.
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Sept. 21, 1970
Gore Vidal, left, and Benjamin Spock, co-chairman of the New York Party, at their press conference in the Hotel Algonquin in New York City.
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Oct. 29, 1971
Feredico Fellini, right, chats with Gore Vidal on the set of "Roma," the movie Fellini directed. Vidal portrayed himself in the movie.
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Dec. 9, 1974
Gore Vidal tosses barbs in all directions as he discusses Hollywood unions, politics, lecturing and publicizing books during an interview in Los Angeles.
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1977
Gore Vidal appears at his Los Angeles home in 1977. He twice ran unsuccessfully for political office, for Congress in 1960 in New York and for the Senate in 1982 after he moved to California.
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June 25, 1981
Oscar-winning writers, from left, Richard Brooks, Bo Goldman, Gore Vidal and Billy Wilder join members of the Writers Guild of America during a massive picket outside the 20 Century Fox studios in Hollywood.
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April 17, 1982
Democratic senatorial candidate Gore Vidal signs a gun control initiative petition while campaigning in Santa Monica, Calif. Vidal was shaking hands at a campaign event when asked to sign the petition.
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June 8, 1982
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. smiles as he indicates with an upraised finger his first-place finish in the primary election to take the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Brown swamped his nearest rival, novelist Gore Vidal, to win the Democratic nomination.
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June 20, 1984
Gore Vidal is shown at the Madison Hotel in Washington.
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Dec. 16, 1985
Author Gore Vidal poses with actors appearing in the NBC-TV miniseries "Dress Gray." Actor Alec Baldwin is at left. Vidal wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Lucian K. Truscott.
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Feb. 15, 1987
Author Gore Vidal talks to reporters in Moscow during a forum for a nuclear-free world.
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Feb. 15, 1993
Noted authors, from left: Gay Talese, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal gather at a party following the Actors' Studio benefit production of George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan In Hell" at Carnegie Hall. Each author read a different role on stage.
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Oct. 28, 1994
Actress Shirley MacLaine shares a laugh with film director Billy Wilder, right, and writer Gore Vidal as they arrive for Barbara and Marvin Davis's 11th world-famous Carousel of Hope fundraiser in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Aug. 1, 2000
Cast members of "The Best Man" pose with author Gore Vidal in New York.
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April 28, 2007
Gore Vidal appears in conversation with writer Jon Wiener at the 12th Annual L.A. Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles. In his career, Vidal produced plays for television and Broadway but also won praise from scholars and critics for his novels.
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Nov. 19, 2009
Actress Joanne Woodward, left, stands by as Gore Vidal speaks at the National Book Awards in New York. Woodward presented Vidal with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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