Authors: Fred Kaplan
Thomas Pryor Gore as a young lawyer in Corsicana, Texas, c.1900.
(Wisconsin Center for film and Theater Research, Gore Vidal collection)
(Clockwise from top) Nina Kay Gore, Nina Gore, Thomas Notley Gore, and Senator Thomas P. Gore, c.1916.
(Courtesy of Gore Vidal)
Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal, c. 1920.
(Courtesy of Margaret Sutton)
The wedding of Nina Gore and Eugene Luther (Gene) Vidal, Washington, January 1922. (Courtesy of Gore Vidal)
Nina Gore and son at Rock Creek Park, c.1927.
(Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Gore Vidal Collection)
Gore Vidal, with his father, about to pilot a plane at the age of ten, Washington, May 1936.
(Courtesy of Gore Vidal)
Amelia Earhart and Gene Vidal, early 1930s.
(American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming)
Merrywood in the late 1930s.
(Courtesy of Gore Vidal)
Gore Vidal (left) and Jimmie Trimble at St. Albans School, c. 1937.
(Courtesy of Gore Vidal)
Gore Vidal and his half-sister Nina (Nini) at Merrywood, c. 1938.
(Courtesy of Nina Auchincloss Straight)
Gore Vidal's passport photograph, 1939.
(Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Gore Vidal Collection)
Gore Vidal (seated, first left) with his Boy Scout Troop at Los Alamos Ranch School, c. 1941.
(Los Alamos Historical Museum)
Rosalind Rust, c.1942.
(Courtesy of Edes F. Talman)