Gore Vidal Portrait Session Next Published December 10, 2017 at 1647 × 1000 in A Search for the King (1950): Gore Vidal PARIS, FRANCE – MARCH 20. (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been shot in black and white. Color version not available.) American writer Gore Vidal poses during portrait session held on March 20, 1983 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)