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The book was dismissed by some of the era's more conservative critics as pornographic at the time of its first publication in February 1968, but nevertheless immediately became a worldwide bestseller and has since come to be considered a classic in some circles.

" It is tempting to argue that Vidal said more to subvert the dominant rules of sex and gender in Myra than is contained in a shelf of queer theory treatises ," wrote Dennis Altman.

Critic Harold Bloom cites Myra Breckinridge as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon.

In 1974 Vidal published a sequel, Myron.