Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International)
by Vidal, Gore
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Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw , written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir. Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. Among his works of fiction and criticism are The Last Station , John Steinbeck , and Benjamin's Crossing . Parini is Gore Vidal's literary executor and a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he cofounded New England Review , and he has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He lives in Vermont.
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- C47639
- Title
- Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (Vintage International)
- Author
- Vidal, Gore
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307388689
- ISBN 13
- 9780307388681
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a
- This edition first published
- 2009-06-16
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