Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been
one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most
outspoken public figures. The author of more than twenty
novels--including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and
Lincoln--as well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays,
Gore Vidal has been a leading man of American letters for more than half
a century.
As the first comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal in nearly thirty
years, this volume charts the entire range of Vidal's career, as well as
the abundant amount of criticism and scholarship he has received. This
exhaustive record covers the entire span of Vidal's sixty years of
writing, from his first novel, Williwaw, in 1946, to his 2006 memoir
Point to Point Navigation. Divided into three sections--works by Gore
Vidal, Vidal in translation, and works about Vidal--the bibliography
cites all of his books, contributions to books and periodicals,
theatrical plays, television plays, screenplays, and adaptations of his
work into various media (films, miniseries, recorded books, e-books,
etc.). In addition, this volume chronicles the immense amount of
criticism that Vidal has received, either in monographs, scholarly
essays, newspaper coverage, book reviews, or elsewhere. Within these
divisions there are numerous subdivisions, generally arranged
thematically to cover the full scope and breadth of Vidal's work and of
work about him.
