Gore, do you remember the first time you met Norman? Gore Vidal: I was taken to meet Norman by Marc Brandel, a novelist of the day. A very funny writer with a morbid sense of humor who decided to ...

From taking a Norman Mailer punch to accusing his country, there were few people or subjects that Gore Vidal wouldn’t take on. In Gore Vidal’s 86 years on this planet he wrote 8 plays, 26 novels, 14 ...

Carole Mallory — the former model and actress who became a writer after a torrid affair with Norman Mailer (who knew it was contagious?) — is taking credit for ending the long and bitter feud between ...

It’s difficult to choose my favorite Norman Mailer fight. There was the time he head-butted Gore Vidal in the green room of The Dick Cavett Show and then—swaggering on stage truculent with drink—got ...

Pugilistic, provocative: when was the late Gore Vidal not up for a fight? He and Norman Mailer famously fought – in public, in private. Mailer head-butted Vidal just before the two men appeared on the ...

Last night literary jack-of-all-trades Gore Vidal passed away at the age of 86 due to complications from pneumonia. The man had a 60-year career in literature, and was a noted liberal figurehead and ...

Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday, his nephew said. Vidal ...