![]() ![]() His most successful play was The Best Man, which he also adapted into a film. His films included I Accuse, Suddenly Last Summer with Tennessee Williams, Is Paris Burning? with Francis Ford Coppola, and Ben-Hur. Once he moved to Hollywood, he wrote television dramas, screenplays, and plays. He had such trouble getting subsequent novels reviewed that he turned to writing mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box and then gave up novel-writing altogether for a time. The New … More York Times refused to advertise the novel and gave a negative review of it and future novels. The City and the Pillar was about a handsome, athletic young Virginia man who gradually discovers that he is homosexual, which caused controversy in the publishing world. His first novel, Williwaw, was published in 1946 when he was twenty-one years old and working as an associate editor at the publishing company E. He enlisted in the Army, where he became first mate on a freight supply ship in the Aleutian Islands. Albans School in Washington and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1943. He did not go to college but attended St. ![]() Military Academy at West Point, New York. Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. ![]()
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