Celebrated writer and political commentator Gore Vidal died in his Los Angeles home on Tuesday evening. He was 86. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/aug/Gore-Vidal.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 605px; " /> Gore Vidal (Pic - AFP) According to reports, the cause of death was complications from pneumonia. He has produced 25 novels, including the best-selling &lsquo;Burr&rsquo; and &lsquo;Myra Breckenridge,&rsquo; and more than 200 essays and several plays. He twice ran for political office and was a well-known commentator. His nephew Burr Steers said that his uncle had been ill &ldquo;for quite a while.&rdquo; He ran for a seat in Congress in 1960 and again in 1982, but lost both the times. He wrote his first book as a 19-year-old, and later went on to become one of America&rsquo;s most distinguished authors.

Author Gore Vidal died at the age of 86 in his Los Angeles home of complications arising from pneumonia.

Writer Gore Vidal dies at 86

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