GORE VIDAL DIES IN HOLLYWOOD 2012 - JOSE GARCIA VILLA DIES IN NEW YORK 1997 - RADIOIRISH.COM

	GORE VIDAL DIES IN HOLLYWOOD 2012 - JOSE GARCIA VILLA DIES IN NEW YORK 1997 - RADIOIRISH.COM GORE VIDAL DIES IN HOLLYWOOD - JOSE GARCIA VILLA DIES IN NEW YORK America's Only Irish Station RADIO IRISH at RadioIrish.com host Seán McCarthy pays tribute to GORE VIDAL who has sadly passed away July 31st, 2012 at the age of 86 at his home in the Hollywood Hills, California. GORE VIDAL will be remembered as one of the world's most respected and outspoken authors, playwrights, essayists, screenwriters, and political activists, for he was all of these. His ground-breaking and controversial novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR brough him world fame when it was published in 1948. The City and the Pillar was the first American novel to deal frankly and positively with homosexual love. GORE VIDAL was a member of the famous GOTHAM BOOK MART group of writers that also including Osbert and Edith Sitwell, WH Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, Charles Henri Ford, William Rose Benét, Stephen Spender, Marya Zaturenska, Horace Gregory, Tennessee Williams, Richard Eberhart, and José Garcia Villa. JOSE GARCIA VILLA is remembered by RADIO IRISH host and poet Seán McCarthy for being the friend and poetry tutor that he studied under during the early 1990's in New York City. Born to humble beginnings on August 5, 1908 in Singalong, Manila, José Garcia Villa studyed medicine and painting at the University of the Philippines, before turning to writing. Villa was suspended subsequently for one year by the University of the Phillipines administration for the <b>...</b>	From: radioirish Views: 0 0 ratings
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