Gore Vidal

GORE VIDAL was born in West Point and is the author of twenty novels, including the American chronicle (Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., and Lincoln), five plays, and five collections of essays, the most recent of which, The Second American Revolution, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1982. He is currently at work on a novel, Manifest Destiny.

- p. 285, The Best American Essays 1986.