The City and the Pillar
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| - | '''Eugene Luther Gore Vidal''' (born [[October 3]] [[1925]]) is a [[United States|American]] [[author]] of [[novel]]s, [[stage play]]s, [[screenplay]]s, and [[essay]]s. The offspring of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. Gore wrote the ''[[The City and the Pillar]]'' in 1948, which created controversy as the first major American novel to feature unambiguous [[homosexual]]ity. {{GFDL}} | + | '''''The City and the Pillar''''' is the third novel by [[United States|American]] writer and essayist [[Gore Vidal]]. Written in [[1946]] and first published in [[1948]], it sparked a public scandal for being the first book by an accepted American author to portray overt [[homosexuality]] as a natural behavior. In [[1965]], Vidal changed the ending to what he had originally in mind, no longer having to bow to the wishes of his publisher, in ''The City and the Pillar Revised''. |
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The City and the Pillar is the third novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal. Written in 1946 and first published in 1948, it sparked a public scandal for being the first book by an accepted American author to portray overt homosexuality as a natural behavior. In 1965, Vidal changed the ending to what he had originally in mind, no longer having to bow to the wishes of his publisher, in The City and the Pillar Revised.
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