 The Hindu | Novelist Gore Vidal dies at age 86: family IBNLive.com PTI | 10:08 PM,Aug 01,2012 Los Angeles, Aug 1 (AFP) US novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works such as "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckinridge," died at age 86, his family said. The writer's nephew Burr Steers ... Gore Vidal, novelist and critic with a sharp wit, dies at 86 The AZ of Gore Vidal Gore Vidal appreciation: The writer-provocateur tried to shake contemporary ... |