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Oct 18, 2012 · Gore Vidal, who died in July, was one of our greatest novelists and essayists – and yet he never went to college. In a 2007 interview I asked him why not. "I graduated from [Phillips] Exeter,” he explained, “and I was aimed at going to Harvard. Instead I enlisted in [the Navy] in 1943.
Nov 8, 2015 · According to his last amended will, Vidal made the university his sole heir—even though he never attended the school. The amendment shocked Vidal’s family and friends, and the lawsuits started flying a few months after his cantankerous heart stopped beating on July 31, 2012.
Nov 13, 2013 · Vidal was known to be insecure about his lack of a college degree, and he sustained a complicated relationship with academia throughout his adult life.
Nov 8, 2013 · There is an irony, as well as mystery, to Mr. Vidal’s bequest. “He had an incredible insecurity about not having gone to university,” said Jay Parini, Mr. Vidal’s longtime friend, onetime ...
Nov 9, 2018 · Vidal’s interest in Harvard, while not obvious, was longstanding. Some speculate it dates to his initial desire to matriculate at the College. In an interview with “Inside Higher Ed” in 2007, Vidal said he had been planning to attend until his military service interfered.
Jan 8, 2010 · For academic authority in this Grassy Knoll enterprise, Vidal relied heavily on the man he thought had produced “the best, most balanced report” on 9/11, a certain Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, of ...
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Leslie Morris, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard College Library, phoned Vidal at his home in California. The author believed that A Thirsty Evil did include “Clouds and Eclipses,” and added that he had wanted to use that title for the collection, but the book’s publisher had vetoed it.
