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Gore Vidal, in his historical fiction novel Creation, describes at length the rise of Achemenids, and especially Darius I and presents the life and death circumstances of Xerxes.
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Gore and Vidal
It doesn't take a Gore Vidal to tell you what's wrong with Cherokee Textile's slogan ( Pitney-Bowes Objects '', July 1 ).
* Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel ( 1989, with Isabel Allende, Marge Piercy, Robert Stone and Gore Vidal )
In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.
Yet, writer Gore Vidal, in his autobiography Point to Point Navigation, recounted that Gable demanded that Cukor be fired off Wind because, according to Cukor, the young Gable had been a male hustler and Cukor had been one of his johns.
During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.
It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin.
Many prominent intellectuals, including the author and activist Gore Vidal, All in the Family creator Norman Lear, and the editors of the liberal magazine The New Republic, also endorsed the Anderson campaign.
As of September 2007, author Gore Vidal was in the process of completing the play, and Peter Bogdanovich was slated to direct its Broadway debut.
Gore and historical
Hay appears as a prominent character in Gore Vidal's historical novels Lincoln and Empire and in William Safire's historical novel Freedom.
* The bulk of Gore Vidal's novels have historical settings, including Burr, which has gained a wider readership than any biography of Aaron Burr.
Burr ( 1973 ), by Gore Vidal, is a historical novel challenging the traditional iconography of United States history via narrative and a fictional memoir of Aaron Burr.
* Toronto Gore Township, Ontario ( historical township in York County and then Peel County, Northeast of Toronto Township )
* In the historical fiction novel Creation by Gore Vidal Scylax of Caryanda appears as a character who is on such familiar terms with King Darius I of Persia that they engage in humorous banter about extending Persian rule to India.
Gore Vidal's novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of " T ." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Empire is the fourth historical novel in the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal, published in 1987.
Washington, D. C. by Gore Vidal is the sixth in his Narratives of Empire series of historical novels ( although the first one published, in 1967 ).
Gore and fiction
Gore Vidal placed Lessing's " science fiction " " somewhere between John Milton and L. Ron Hubbard ".
By the end, it doesn't seem like fiction at all that we're reading, but just another clever dissertation by Gore Vidal.
Gore and novel
Cromwell was mentioned in Gore Vidal's satirical novel Myra Breckinridge ( 1968 ) as " the late Richard Cromwell, so satisfyingly tortured in Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
In 1950, Gore Vidal published a novel ( Dark Green, Bright Red ), in which a thinly fictionalized version of United Fruit supports a military coup in a thinly fictionalized Guatemala.
Gore Vidal, whose 1967 best-selling novel Myra Breckenridge was considered obscene by many in the anti-pornography movement ( but which was not prosecuted ), satirized the Miller v. California decision in the 1974 sequel to Myra Breckenridge, Myron.
* In Gore Vidal's novel Creation, which takes place between 510 – 445 BC, Cathay is a pivotal setting.
* Gore Vidal in his 1948 novel The City and the Pillar: " The Cliveden-Churchill Set are too well entrenched and I shouldn't be in the least surprised if they created some sort of dictatorship that could never be thrown off without a revolution.
* In the novel Creation by Gore Vidal, Mardonius is portrayed as a lifelong friend of Xerxes and Cyrus Spitama the grandson of the prophet Zoroaster.
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