A self-described son in the House of Atreus, a “connoisseur of decline,” an American aristocrat who claimed he was a populist, and a prolific and insightful man of letters who recalled the first American chronicler William Dean Howells. Gore Vidal was a “treasure of state,” as R.W.B. Lewis wrote in a New York Times review of a Vidal essay, but also an enigmatic treasure of humanity, ever comfortable in the public eye amid controversy, scandal, and unparalleled aplomb. 

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