Where can I find a detailed bibliography of Vidals work?
Robert Stanton published a book-length bibliography of Vidal in 1978. Of course, it’s now outdated by almost three decades, which is especially significant because, since the 1980s, Vidal has seen his work translated much more widely in Europe, including in many former Communist-bloc countries. Stanton’s book is thorough up through 1978. Unfortunately, Stanton’s book is impossible to find on used/rare books sites. I happened across a copy in 1994 (not via the internet) and haven’t seen one for sale since. It’s a very rare Vidal collectible. (G.K. Hall and Co., 226 pages. ISBN: 0816181098.) But now there’s a new bibliography: S.T. Joshi – the author or editor of numerous books, including Atheism: A Reader, which includes an essay by Vidal on American fundamentalism – has updated the canon of research on Vidal with his bibliography. The book includes a foreword by Jay Parini, Vidal’s literary executor and himself the editor of a collection of scholarly essays on Vidal. The book is slated
Robert Stanton published a book-length bibliography of Vidal in 1978. Of course, it’s now outdated by almost three decades, which is especially significant because, since the 1980s, Vidal has seen his work translated much more widely in Europe, including in many former Communist-bloc countries. Stanton’s book is thorough up through 1978. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to find on used/rare books sites. I happened across a copy in 1994 (not via the internet) and haven’t seen one for sale since. It’s a very rare Vidal collectible. (G.K. Hall and Co., 226 pages. ISBN: 0816181098.) But now there’s a new bibliography: Steven Abbott – who has known Vidal since the early 1970s – has updated the canon of research on Vidal with his enormous and definitive bibliography. The book includes many illustrations of Vidal’s work and a CD with even more images and documents. Another bibliography, published by S.T. Joshi in 2008, is a good and helpful book, but it’s not nearly as detailed as Abbott’s inva
