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Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012), born Eugene Louis Vidal, was an American writer (novels, essays, screenplays, stage plays) and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. He was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather was Thomas Pryor Gore, U.S. Senator for Oklahoma (1907–21 and 1931–37). As Gore Vidal, he was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the House of Representatives (New York State, 1960), then to the Senate (California, 1982).
As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. He also wrote books which greatly offended public sensibilities but today are considered ahead of their time: one novel had a dispassionately presented gay male relationship, another explored the mutability of gender-role and sexual-orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. Vidal considered himself a bisexual person, and lived with his partner Howard Austen for 53 years.
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