Autographs of Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/vɪˈdɑːl/ vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his cynical epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays criticized the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Vidal was heavily involved in politics, and unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the United States Senate (for California).
A grandson of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer.
As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His style of narration evoked the time and place of his stories and delineated his characters' psychology. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), about a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship, offended conservative book reviewers' literary, political, and moral sensibilities.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Gore Vidal (Gore Vidal CITY AND THE PILLAR First Edition inscribed by the Signed #155934) was sold in November 2022 for £1,007.58 while the cheapest item (Signed Gore Vidal 1925-2012 American Historian Writer Novelist Playwright 1940s+) found a new owner for £3.20 in October 2015. The month with the most items sold (114) was July 2025 with an average selling price of £106.33 for an autographed item of Gore Vidal. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with £131.92 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.20 was October 2015. In average, an autographed item from Gore Vidal is worth £57.36.
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