Gore Vidal
American
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- Father Eugene Luther Vidal
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1925/00/00 | Born | ||||||
| 1943/07/00 | Vidal enlist in the US Army. After a time in an army specialized training programme, he is assigned to the crew of an army air force crash boat, stationed on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana (their job is to fish air-force training pilots out of the lake). | Military | |||||
| 1945/00/00 | I had been oddly excited by a film the previous night, Isle of the Dead, with Boris Karloff, not a monster but a sort of art film. I began to write ...and, as I wrote, the story obligingly wrote itself for me. - Vidal, about his novel, Williwaw. | Life | |||||
| 1945/00/00 | "I read The Red Badge of Courage several times, for the style and the, literally, colour. And I read his The Open Boat - set, like mine, upon a riotous ominous sea." - Gore Vidal, on the formation of his first novel, Williwaw | Life | The Open Boat (short story) | ||||
| 1945/01/00 | Gore becomes 1st mate on a army freight-supply ship at Chernowski Bay, Umnak Island. Their regular run was from Chernowski to Dutch Harbour, the port and capital village of the chain that was then very like Holland Harbour in the novel (Williwaw). | Military | Umnak | Alaska | |||
| 1945/01/00 | Gore becomes 1st mate on a army freight-supply ship at Chernowski Bay, Umnak Island. Their regular run was from Chernowski to Dutch Harbour, the port and capital village of the chain that was then very like Holland Harbour in the novel (Williwaw). | Military | Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, US Army | Unalaska Island | |||
| 1946/00/00 | Gore Vidal's first novel, Williwaw, is published in the United States by EP Dutton. The war drama, maritime adventure is set aboard an Army boat in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. | Author | |||||
| 1948/00/00 | New York Times excludes Gore Vidal's books from its review pages for years after "The City and the Pillar" (1948), with its homosexual hero. The paper refused even to accept advertisements for the novel. | Life | |||||
| 1959/08/06 | "The Scapegoat" is released | Scriptwriter | The Scapegoat (film) | ||||
| 1968/00/00 | Myra Breckinridge - published | Author | Myra Breckinridge | ||||
| 1984/00/00 | In an interview with Adam Mars-Jones, Vidal praises DH Lawrence as a critic of American literature and expresses his awed admiration for The Golden Bowl by Henry James. | Life | The Golden Bowl (book) | ||||
| 1984/00/00 | Adam Mars-Jones interviews Vidal for the Sunday Times over lunch in Vidal's room at the Dorchester, a luxury hotel on Park Ln in London. They started with quails' eggs in pastry boats, a specialty of the Dorchester's. | Life | |||||
| 2012/00/00 | Dies |
1 Creative Work by Gore Vidal »
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| Myra Breckinridge | Author | Book | 1968/00/00 |
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