Antonello Nusca/Gamma Liaison: 1; collection of Gore Vidal: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; U.P.I./Bettmann: 8, 9; Bob Sandberg/Look magazine, © May 1943: p. 10; Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research: 11, 12; American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming: 13, 14; George Silk, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.: p. 15; Allen Ginsberg: p. 16; A.P./Wide World Photos: 17, 18; Photofest: 19; Everett Collection: 20.
Photographs
1, from the collection of Gore Vidal.
2, Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma; bottom left, Brown Brothers; 3, Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma.
4, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; 5, collection of Gore Vidal.
6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming; 7 and 8, A.P./Wide World Photos; 9, U.P.I./Bettmann.
10, © 1933 Time, Inc.; 11 and 12, collection of Gore Vidal.
13, collection of Gore Vidal.
14, 15, 16 Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
17, collection of Gore Vidal.
18, 19 Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
20, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Four, 1944–1947, © 1971, top, courtesy of the Anaïs Nin Trust, photograph by Maya Deren; 21, collection of George Bixby; 22, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
23, Jerry Cooke, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.
24, collection of Gore Vidal.
25 and 26, collection of Gore Vidal; 27, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
28, 29 photographs by Jo Healy, courtesy of Erin Clermont.
30, Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos; 31, Lisa Larsen, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.
32, Karl Bissinger.
33, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
34, collection of Gore Vidal.
35, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; 36, collection of Gore Vidal.
37, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; 38, collection of Gore Vidal.
39, Walter Sanders, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.
40, Everett Collection; 41 and 42, Photofest.
43, collection of Gore Vidal; 44, Everett Collection.
45, collection of Gore Vidal.
46, 47, 48 collection of Gore Vidal.
49, collection of Gore Vidal.
50, John Loengard, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.; 51, A.P./Wide World Photos.
52, Leonard McCombe, Life magazine, © Time, Inc.
53, top, A.P./Wide World Photos; 54, Globe Photos; 55, Archive Photos.
56, U.P.I./Bettmann.
57, collection of Gore Vidal.