Eugene Gore Vidal

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This paper looks at Eugene Gore Vidal, a novelist, essayist, playwright, and sort of a rebel whose career has spanned about sixty years. He started writing right after World War II and his career continued into the early twenty-first century. It discusses how in addition to a major sequence of seven satirical novels about American history he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under the fake name Edgar Box.
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"Vidal has written three kinds of novels. Early in his career, he mostly wrote what can best be called contemporary dramas, telling stories of people from various branches of American society: A soldier in World War II, a young stock broker on Wall Street, the embittered son of a privileged family, a young adventurer in strife-torn Central America. In 1964, with the publication of Julian, he introduced himself as a historical novelist and eventually he wrote a series of seven novels examining the history of America from the Revolutionary War to the present. Vidal writes novels that he calls "inventions," a genre that others authors have called post-modern fiction. "

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