Author, playwright Gore Vidal dies
BooksAug 1, 2012
Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday, his nephew said Tuesday.Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. of complications from pneumonia, said Burr Steers. Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for “quite a while,’’ he said.Along with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, Vidal was among the last ge