Gore Vidal, at home in the Hollywood Hills. Photographed by Steve Schapiro, 1978.

At the first-century *Bocca Della Verità,* or Mouth of Truth, in Rome, 1970.

With Paul Newman on Delos, during a cruise of the Greek Islands.

At Edgewater, his home on the Hudson River, circa 1960.

*Top,* working out at his Italian villa, 1974; *above,* with Bianca and Mick Jagger in Ravello, circa 1970s.

With James Coburn and Sue Mengers in Los Angeles, 1969.

An army photo taken in Lexington, Virginia, 1942.

Photographed by Jonathan Becker with Carrie Fisher, Howard Austen, Earl McGrath, Ahmet Ertegun, and David Hockney at the 2003 *Vanity Fair* Oscar party, at Morton’s in West Hollywood.

Photographed by Stathis Orphanos at home in Ravello.

*Top,* “flying” a “Hammond” flivver plane at age 10; *above,* with Tennessee Williams and John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, circa 1961.

Working with Baby, his orange cat, in Ravello, 2001.

During his Congressional campaign in New York State, 1960.

With Joanne and Johnny Carson in Ravello, circa 1970s.

At Edgewater during his Congressional campaign, 1960.

Gore Vidal at 100

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are”

Perhaps the only thing Gore Vidal enjoyed more than dispensing witticisms—or sipping a Macallan single malt—was being photographed. In observance of what would have been his 100th birthday this week, AIR MAIL’s Photo Director, Ann Schneider, and Research & Legal Editor, Matt Kapp, share some of their favorite Vidal photographs and quotes. Nothing if not prolific, Vidal wrote more than two dozen novels, eight plays, 16 screenplays, and hundreds of essays and magazine articles, spanning nearly 70 years.

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”