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Gore Vidal

1925 - 2012

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). A grandson of U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gore Vidal has received more than 6,452,936 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Gore Vidal is the 1,501st most popular writer (down from 1,346th in 2019), the 1,934th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,588th in 2019) and the 179th most popular American Writer.

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  • 61

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  • 6.21

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gore Vidal ranks 1,501 out of 5,755Before him are Michael Moorcock, Nicholas Sparks, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Raymond Roussel, Li Qingzhao, and Gottfried August Bürger. After him are David Woodard, Gil Vicente, Anagarika Dharmapala, Stobaeus, Samuel Pepys, and Władysław Tarnowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gore Vidal ranks 104Before him are Tom Gehrels, Ernesto Cardenal, Georges Delerue, Justo Gallego Martínez, Lepa Radić, and Dettmar Cramer. After him are Alexander Shulgin, Donald O'Connor, Aliya Moldagulova, Serge Moscovici, David Elazar, and Tofiq Bahramov. Among people deceased in 2012, Gore Vidal ranks 78Before him are David Kelly, Bingu wa Mutharika, Teófilo Stevenson, Scott McKenzie, Hans Werner Henze, and Carl Johan Bernadotte. After him are Griselda Blanco, Santiago Carrillo, Maurice Herzog, Galina Vishnevskaya, Neslişah Sultan, and Alexis Weissenberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gore Vidal ranks 1,934 out of 18,182Before him are Jack Kevorkian (1928), Michael Bay (1965), Alex Jones (1974), Jack Daniel (1850), Victor French (1934), and Frank Wilczek (1951). After him are Jason Momoa (1979), David Woodard (1964), Sydney Chaplin (1926), Dan Inosanto (1936), Terry Riley (1935), and Busta Rhymes (1972).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gore Vidal ranks 179Before him are Rick Riordan (1964), Philip José Farmer (1918), Jack Vance (1916), William Carlos Williams (1883), Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), and Nicholas Sparks (1965). After him are David Woodard (1964), Upton Sinclair (1878), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Elizabeth George (1949), Wayne Dyer (1940), and Lewis Mumford (1895).