This paper looks at Eugene Gore Vidal, a novelist, essayist, playwright, and sort of a rebel whose
career has spanned about
sixty years. He started writing right after World War II and his career continued into the early twenty-first century. It discusses how in addition to a major sequence of seven satirical novels about American
history he has
written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under the fake name Edgar Box. Outline Literary History Interpretive Essay Articles of Criticism