Writer, critic, bon vivant and television personality Gore Vidal has shuffled off this decaying mortal coil.

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Read the New York Times obituary here.

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Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003 after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.

Gore Vidal Memorial to be Held August 23rd at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

born Eugene Louis Vidal in West Point, New York, 
October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012

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Gore Vidal

Grandfather, Thomas Gore  (December 10, 1870 – March 16, 1949).  He was blind and

 served as a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931

 until 1937.  Oklahoma History