Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The author of more than twenty novels--including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln--as well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Gore Vidal has been a leading man of American letters for more than half a century...