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Gore Vidal Part 1
Business professional Zach Loavenbruck possesses on-the-job experience managing small- to medium-sized teams, providing client support, overseeing corporate training, and streamlining internal company operations. A Coordinator of Training & Organizational Support for Watertown, Massachusetts-based Liaison International, Zach Loavenbruck maintains a busy life outside of the office, playing baseball, riding his mountain bike, golfing, and hiking. During his limited downtime, Zach Loavenbruck enjoys the poems and stories of Shel Silverstein, the essays and writings of David Sedaris, and the plays and novels of Gore Vidal.
An important figure in American literary history, Gore Vidal (b. 1925) has authored numerous plays, novels, short stories, and screenplays during his writing career. Vidal continues to produce moving works even today, like Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History’s Glare (2009) and The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (2008). A political activist, Vidal ran for congressional office twice during his life and serves as a longtime outspoken, political critic.
Vidal published his first novel, Williwaw, at age 19. Williwaw described Vidal’s service with the U.S. Army Reserve in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. A few years later, he published one of his most controversial works, The City and the Pillar. Released in 1948, The City and the Pillar follows the life of a young man uncovering his homosexuality. One of the few gay novels of its era, The City and the Pillar incited criticism because of its theme of open homosexuality during a time when the openly gay were largely condemned.
Following The City and the Pillar, Vidal produced several screenplays for theater, television, and film. His Broadway successes, Visit to a Small Planet and The Best Man became popular movies. In 1956, Vidal joined Metro Goldwyn Mayer as a contract screenwriter. Over the next five-and-a-half decades of his life, Vidal turned out several novels, including Julian, Myra Breckinridge, and Hollywood, as well as notable plays like An Evening with Richard Nixon and Weekend.
Gore Vidal on Writing
[Posted by BookTV]
