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List of works by Gore Vidal

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Vidal in 2009

Gore Vidal was an American writer and screenwriter who worked in a wide variety of genres.

Non-fiction

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Books

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  • Rocking the Boat (1963)
  • Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969)
  • Sex, Death and Money (1969) (paperback compilation)
  • Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952–1972 (1972) ISBN 0-394-71950-6
  • Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1977)
  • Sex is Politics and Vice Versa (1979), limited edition by Sylvester & Orphanos
  • Views from a Window Co-Editor (1981)
  • The Second American Revolution (1983)
  • Vidal In Venice (1985) ISBN 0-671-60691-3
  • Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987) (UK only)
  • At Home: Essays 1982-1988 (1988) (US only)
  • A View From The Diner's Club: Essays 1987-1991 (1991) (UK only)
  • Screening History (1992) ISBN 0-233-98803-3
  • Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992) ISBN 1-878825-00-3
  • United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993) ISBN 0-7679-0806-6 – National Book Award[1]
  • Palimpsest: A Memoir. New York: Random House. 1995. ISBN 9780679440383. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  • Virgin Islands: Essays 1992-1997 (1997) (UK only)
  • The American Presidency (1998) ISBN 1-878825-15-1
  • Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999)
  • The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 (2001) ISBN 0-375-72639-X (there is also a much shorter UK edition)
  • Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace or How We Came To Be So Hated, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-405-X
  • Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2002) ISBN 1-56025-502-1
  • Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (2003) ISBN 0-300-10171-6
  • Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia (2004) ISBN 1-56025-744-X
  • Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir (2006) ISBN 0-385-51721-1
  • The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008) ISBN 0-385-52484-6
  • Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9
  • I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) ISBN 978-1-61902-174-7
  • Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014)
  • Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015) ISBN 978-1-942531-12-8

Articles

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Fiction

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Novels

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Short story collections

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  • A Thirsty Evil (1956) (short stories)
  • Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) ISBN 0-394-50117-9
  • Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories (2006) The anthology A Thirsty Evil (1956), with the additional short story "Clouds and Eclipses"

Plays

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Screenplays and teleplays

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References

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  1. ^ "National Book Awards – 1993". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
    (With acceptance speech by Vidal, read by Harry Evans.)
  2. ^ Bayard, Louis (April 12, 2015), "Review: Gore Vidal's 'Thieves Fall Out', Where Pulp Fiction and Hard Reality Met", The New York Times, retrieved April 12, 2015