Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain (Hardcover, Revised)

Gore Vidal: A Chronology of His Works1. Jay Parini--Gore Vidal: The Writer and His Critics
2. Italo Calvino--Imagining Vidal
3. David Price--Williwaw: Gore Vidal's First Novel
4. Claude J. Summers--The City and the Pillar as Gay Fiction
5. Bernard F. Dick--Gore Vidal: The Entertainer
6. Robert F. Kiernan--The Vidalian Manner: The Judgement of Paris, Two Sisters, Kalki
7. Alan Cheuse--A Note on Vidal's Messiah
8. Heather Neilson--The Fiction of History in Gore Vidal's Messiah
9. Ray Lewis White--Vidal as Playwright: In Gentlest Heresy
10. William H. Pritchard--Vidal's Satiric Voices
11. Samuel F. Pickering--Living Appropriately: Vidal and the Essay
12. Robert Boyers--On Gore Vidal: Wit and the Work of Criticism
13. Thomas M. Disch--Vidal as Essayist: The Man Who Has Everything
14. Stephen Spender--Gore Vidal: Private Eye
15. Catharine R. Stimpson--My O My O Myra
16. James Tatum--The Romanitas of Gore Vidal
17. Harold Bloom--The Central Man: On Gore Vidal's Lincoln
18. Richard Poirier--Vidal's Empire
19. Louis Auchincloss--Babylon Revisited
20. Donald E. Pease--America and the Vidal Chronicles
21. Jay Parini--An Interview with Gore VidalNotes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index