![]() ![]() I declined but began writing notes for a book that could only be published after Vidal's death. Gore was very thin-skinned and could not tolerate even the slightest criticism. My wife warned me against doing so fearing we would never be friends again. Gore begged me to take it on: "Please, please be my official biographer." Jay Parini: Vidal had selected Walter Clemons, who, unfortunately, suffered from diabetes and frequent writer's block and had died before any chance of completing the project. Windy City Times: What is the correct lineage of Vidal's biographers? Many, too, are the Gore Vidals of Jay Parini's Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal. "My selves are many," wrote Pabla Neruda of himself. Film adaptations of Benjamin's Crossing and The Passages of H.M. In 2009, his novel The Last Station was turned into an Academy Award-nominated film. Each year, he edits volumes of criticism for Scribners in their series American Writers and British Writers. homosexuality that blacklisted him with reviewers.Īs varied and prolific as his subject, Parini has written five books of poetry, seven fictional novels and 12 nonfiction titles, including biographies of John Steinbeck ( 1994 ), Robert Frost ( 2000 ) and William Faulkner ( 2004 ). Jay Parini was born in 1948the same year Gore Vidal published The City and the Pillar, his seminal book on U.S. This article shared 597 times since Wed Aug 3, 2016 ![]()
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