Williwaw was based on his wartime experiences as first-mate on Freight Ship 35 in the Alaskan Harbour Craft Detachment. From 1947 to 1949 Vidal lived in Antigua, Upon his discharge he worked for six months for Much of his time in the Enlisted ReserveĬorps he devoted to writing. Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, he served on an army supply ship Vidal learned about political life from him, and when he was a teenager he adopted the first name of Gore. Gore, a populist Democrat senator from Oklahoma. He was raised near Washington, DC, in the house of his grandfather, Thomas P. He was born at the military academy in West Point, New York, Vidal grew accustomed at an early age to a life among political and social Vidal made his debut as novelist with Williwaw at the age of 19, while still in the US Army. Gore Vidal, a longtime Nation contributing writer, was a prolific novelist, playwright and essayist, and one of the great stylists of contemporary American prose.
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