Posted on 07/31/2012 10:10:24 PM PDT by Zakeet
Celebrated writer and political commentator Gore Vidal has died aged 86, according to US media.
He died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening of complications from pneumonia, his nephew, Burr Steers, told AP.
A prolific writer, Gore Vidal produced 25 novels, including the best-selling Burr and Myra Breckenridge, more than 200 essays, and several plays.
He also ran for political office twice and was a well-known commentator.
Mr Steers told the Associated Press that his uncle had been ill "for quite a while".
Along with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Gore Vidal was among a generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities - fixtures on talk shows and in gossip columns
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May God have mercy on his America-hating, moonbat-leftist soul
I was going to say that I hoped Buckley would punch him in his G.D. mouth, but I don’t think he’s going where Buckley is (although hopefully he will).
William Buckley ate his lunch in 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
yawn
God should return him to sender down below, way below
Mr Steers told the Associated Press that his uncle had been ill “for quite a while”.
Approximately 86 years
Mr. Veedal, there seems to be a problem with your bill.....
Obama can’t afford to lose votes!
His historical novels are worth reading -I liked Julian and Creation.
I wonder what the fatal malady was. Despite the decedent's advanced age, in his case, the answer could still be interesting.
Agreed. Creation was very, very good.
Regardless of his politics or morals, he is acknowledged as being an extraordinary writer.
I think most of his fiction will probably be forgotten but his essays will live on. He may have been the best essayist in English since Orwell. Many of them are apolitical too.
“Gore Vidal has died aged 86...”
I won’t be attending the funeral —but I will send a nice letter stating that I approve of it.
Friggin communist.
/johnny
See ya bozo.
See ya bozo.
As the great Shakespeare might say:
Get thee to thy reward, thou rancorous rump-fed foot-licker!
Begone from this mortal coil, thou rank hasty-witted pigeon-egg!
Enjoy thy banishment to thine eternal cell, thou babbling pottle-deep hypocrite!
Oh, for breath to utter what is like thee!
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