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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

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November 2, 1995 issue

Love on the Hudson

Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward

May 11, 1995 issue

A Nineteenth-Century Man

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972

by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney

November 4, 1993 issue

Maugham’s Half & Half

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham

by Robert Calder

A Writer's Notebook

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Narrow Corner

by W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale

by W. Somerset Maugham

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