Gore Vidal — American Novelist born on October 03, 1925, died on July 31, 2012

Gore Vidal was an American writer and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing. As Eugene Louis Vidal, he was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma. As Gore Vidal, he was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the United States House of Representatives, then to the U.S. Senate... (wikipedia)