Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. Two of his American empire novels, Lincoln and 1876, were the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, respectively. In 1993, a collection of his criticism, United States: Essays 1952-1992, won the National Book Award. In addition, he received an award from the Cannes Film Festival for best screenplay for The Best Man.
His most recent work, The Golden Age (Random House) is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling American empire novels-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War. In his six previous narratives of the American empire-Burr, Lincoln, 1876, Empire, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.-he has created a fictional portrait of our nation from its founding.
Hear Gore Vidal read from The Golden Age in this Bold Type recording.
From "The Golden Age" ) 2000, Gore Vidal. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. No reproduction of this material is authorized without the express written consent of the Licensor.
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