Writer;

Born: October 3, 1925 Died July 31 2012

Gore Vidal, who has died aged 86 of complications from pneumonia, was an essayist, novelist, scriptwriter, playwright and polemicist who, by the close of his long, provocative and turbulent career, could fairly claim to have been one of America's fiercest critics.

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