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Gore Vidal was an American writer, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. He was born on October 3, 1925, in West Point, New York, to Eugene Luther Vidal and Nina Gore Vidal. He was the great-grandson of Thomas Gore, a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. Vidal attended Phillips Exeter Academy and then went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He left college after a year and joined the U.S. Army in 1943. After the war, he returned to college and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951. Vidal wrote more than 25 novels, five plays, several screenplays, and hundreds of essays. His works include the novels Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln, and the play The Best Man. He was also a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and the George W. Bush administration. Vidal was married twice, first to Nini Langhorne and then to Howard Austen. He had no children. Vidal was awarded the National Book Award for Fiction in 1993 for his novel Live from Golgotha. He was also awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000. Gore Vidal had an estimated net worth of $12 million at the time of his death in 2012.

Popular As Eugene Louis Vidal
Occupation writer,actor
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 3 October 1925
Birthday 3 October
Birthplace West Point, New York, U.S.
Date of death July 31, 2012
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Gore Vidal Height, Weight & Measurements

At 87 years old, Gore Vidal height is 5' 11½" (1.82 m) .

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Height 5' 11½" (1.82 m)
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Parents Eugene Luther Vidal Nina S. Gore
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Gore Vidal Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Gore Vidal worth at the age of 87 years old? Gore Vidal’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Gore Vidal's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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2005

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 395-409. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

1995

A 1995 BBC documentary on him, Omnibus: Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1 (1995), features The Night of the Generals (1967) among a montage of posters for films he is known to have contributed to as a writer, although, as with Ben-Hur (1959), he is not credited.

1993

Won a National Book Award (1993) for his non-fiction collection "United States: Essays, 1952-1992".

1982

Another unsuccessful foray into politics would occur in 1982 when he ran for governor of California. In addition to being an accomplished writer, he is also a novice actor.

1976

In 1976, he accepted the Oscar for best writing-original screenplay on behalf of Frank Pierson, who wasn't present at the Academy Awards ceremony.

1973

Uncle of Burr Steers, who is related on his mother's side to Thomas Jefferson's infamous vice president Aaron Burr, the subject of Vidal's best-selling novel "Burr" in 1973.

1970

In the early 1970s, a Washington, D.C. television station named the host of their weekly horror movie slot Gore Dival.

1967

Co-Founded the U.S. Peace Party with Benjamin Spock on June 23, 1967. Much like Gore Vidal himself, Spock was an outspoken activist in the anti-Vietnam War movement during the 1960s and early 1970s. This third party still exists today as the Peace and Freedom Party (PFP).

1960

In 1960, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress, backed by celebrity supporters like Paul Newman & Vidal's ex-fiancé Joanne Woodward.

1959

Is uncredited as a screenwriter on Ben-Hur (1959), although producer Sam Zimbalist had promised Vidal and Christopher Fry, who worked on the script independently from Vidal, screen credit. Karl Tunberg, who wrote the original screenplay before many rewrites by Vidal and Fry produced the final shooting script, claimed the credit. Zimbalist died before the movie ended, and thus could not testify at the Writers Guild arbitration hearing. Tunberg won the credit, but failed to win the Oscar. The film had been nominated for 12 Oscars, and won a record 11, a record that has since been tied. The movie's sole loss was for best writing-screenplay based on material from another medium. The loss is usually attributed to the fallout over the credit dispute, which Vidal made widely known.

1950

He met his long-term partner Howard Austen in 1950. They were together until Austen's death in November 2003.

1944

He was an intimate friend of playwright Tennessee Williams. They lived together in Italy for many years. Whenever Gore was asked to name his favorite movie, he facetiously named Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944), a mediocre film starring Lana Turner. Vidal knew that Tennessee Williams had contributed to its screenplay without credit, and he was embarrassed whenever anyone mentioned the film.

1943

After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1943, Gore joined the US Army Reserves. Some of his Army experiences inspired his first novel, Williwaw, which was published when he was just 19. He dedicated the novel to J. T. , a deceased prep-school friend. Subsequent novels would prominently feature gay male characters, and Gore found soon found his books had staying power on bestseller lists.

1936

In 1936, as a 10-year-old boy, he appeared in a Pathé Newsreel landing his father's light aircraft.

1933

His father, Eugene Luther Vidal, helped start three different airlines and had a lengthy romantic relationship with aviator Amelia Earhart. With Earhart's recommendation to Eleanor Roosevelt, Vidal was named Director of Aeronautics in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. He then appeared on the cover of Time magazine (December 18, 1933). In his youth, Eugene had been a football star at West Point and competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920.

1925

Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal in 1925 in West Point, New York, to Nina (Gore) and West Point aeronautics instructor and aviation pioneer Eugene Luther Vidal. The Vidals endured a rocky marriage divorcing ten years after Gore's birth. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T. P. Gore of Oklahoma. Vidal would later become the confidant of Jacqueline Kennedy when Jacques mother married his former step father, Hugh D. Auchincloss.

1700

He has been cited as a relative of Tennessee senator and Vice President Al Gore ("Gore" was Gore Vidal's mother's maiden name). However, Gore Vidal and Al Gore share no common "Gore" ancestors going back to at least the early 1700s.