Gore Vidal. RIP

[sandyRoe]

He might be remembered for the book,Myra Brackenridge, filmed with Raquel Welch playing a transsexual.
For anyone interested in an alternative take on history Burr is a good read.

[sandyRoe]

*...an alternative take on the history of the USA at the time of the Founding Fathers, Burr is a good read

[Ric.ror]

Wasn't a character in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD based on him as a child or am I thinking of another author?

[The Builder]

.......... another hero gone, Sandy.

"I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club."
.......................... Gore Vidal

[ladybirder]

Very interesting man. Sorry at his passing.

[mazie]

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal
RIP

[humbersloop]

pretty well peerless

http://www.guardian.c...ore-vidal-best-quotes