Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal born Eugene Louis Vidal October 3 1925 July 31 2012 was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life Beyond literature Vidal was heavily involved in politics He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate first in 1960 to the US House of Representatives for New York and later in 1982 to the US Senate for California Description above from the Wikipedia article Gore Vidal licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia