Editing Gore Vidal (section)

==Death==
[[File:Gore Vidal Grave 2023 Cropped.jpg|thumb|right|The grave of Gore Vidal in [[Rock Creek Cemetery]].]]
In 2010, Vidal began to suffer from [[Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome]], a neurological disorder caused by his years of alcohol abuse.<ref name="auto">{{cite news |first=Leo |last=Robson |title=Delusions of Candour |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/delusions-of-candor |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 26, 2015 |access-date=December 9, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222085601/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/delusions-of-candor |url-status=live }}</ref> On July 31, 2012, Vidal died of [[pneumonia]] at his home in the [[Hollywood Hills]] at the age of 86.<ref name="auto"/><ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/story/2012-08-01/gore-vidal-dies/56631952/1 "Gore Vidal, Celebrated Author, Playwright, Dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160229182618/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/story/2012-08-01/gore-vidal-dies/56631952/1 |date=February 29, 2016 }} by Tina Fineberg, USA Today, August 1, 2012</ref><ref>Hillel Italie and Andrew Dalton, [http://hosted2.ap.org/OREUG/topstories/Article_2012-08-01-Obit-Gore%20Vidal/id-575d29027cfe46e6a07b0a13eeb44516 "Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110091342/http://hosted2.ap.org/OREUG/topstories/Article_2012-08-01-Obit-Gore%20Vidal/id-575d29027cfe46e6a07b0a13eeb44516 |date=November 10, 2012 }}, Associated Press, August 1, 2012.</ref> A memorial service was held for him at the [[Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre]] in New York City on August 23, 2012.<ref>'Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan', ''The New York Times'', August 23, 2012.</ref> He was buried next to Howard Austen in [[Rock Creek Cemetery]], in Washington, D.C.<ref>'Gore Vidal's Grave', 'Huffington Post', August 1, 2012.</ref> Vidal said he chose his grave site because it is between the graves of two people who were important in his life: [[Henry Adams]], the historian and writer, whose work Vidal admired; and his boyhood friend Jimmie Trimble who was killed in World War II, a tragedy that haunted Vidal for the rest of his life.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gore Vidal: Oct. 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012 |url=https://sites.pitt.edu/~kloman/death.html |access-date=October 7, 2023 |website=sites.pitt.edu}}</ref> Upon his death, Vidal bequeathed the entirety of his estate, valued at $37&nbsp;million,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Teeman |first=Tim |date=November 8, 2013 |title=For Gore Vidal, a Final Plot Twist |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/fashion/In-a-final-plot-twist-Gore-Vidal-leaves-his-estate-to-Harvard-Universtity.html |access-date=July 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> to [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gore Vidal's Multimillion Dollar Gift to the University Challenged by Half-Sister {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/13/gore-vidals-gift-challenged/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>