Novelist Gore Vidal dies at 86
- Published: 1 Aug 2012 at 12.48
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US novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckenridge", has died at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported.
File photo shows US novelist Gore Vidal in his Los Angeles home in 2006. Gore, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckenridge", has died at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The writer's newphew Burr Steers said Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia, the Times said.
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