Iconoclastic American author Gore Vidal dead at 86

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(Reuters) – Writer Gore Vidal, who filled his intellectual works with acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture while carrying on feuds with his big-name literary rivals, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, Los Angeles Times reported. "Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia," the newspaper said, quoting the author's nephew Burr Steers. Vidal's literary legacy includes a series of historical novels — "Burr," "1876," "Lincoln" and "The Golden Age" among them — as well as the campy transexual comedy "Myra Breckenridge. …

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