Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, an impressive essayist, critic, playwright, political activist, novelist, screenwriter and general raconteur raised in the Washington, D.C. area, passed away July 31, 2012.
Vidal's genius was apparent when, at 25 years of age, he wrote the satiric novel The Judgement of Paris, a critically acclaimed retelling of the Greek myth. His penchant for highlighting traditionally forbidden subject matter put off some critics, but delighted others who saw in Vidal an intellectual who dared to challenge the status quo.
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in the seasoned language of a long-time reporter, and this gives his fiction both legitimacy and believability, which works to his advantage when his characters wind up in somewhat unbelievable situations. In his second novel, 
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