Tag: Gore Vidal

  • Campus & Community

    New faculty: Teju Cole

    Teju Cole, author of “Open City” and “Every Day Is for the Thief,” will teach creative writing as the first Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice.

    Teju Cole.
  • Arts & Culture

    The life and legacy of Gore Vidal

    Author Gore Vidal left his papers and library to the University. The fruits of that gift, combined with an earlier gift of a portion of his papers in 2001, have been meticulously cataloged and archived at Houghton Library.

    William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal debate.
  • Arts & Culture

    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

  • Arts & Culture

    The history at Houghton

    Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.