The Best Man! Gore Vidal Dead At 86 (DETAILS)

Gore Vidal, an author, playwright, politician and commentator, died Tuesday at age 86 in his Los Angeles home.

Vidal passed away at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. of complications from pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said. Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for "quite a while," Steers said.

His works included hundreds of essays, the best-selling novels Lincoln and Myra Breckenridge and the Tony-nominated play The Best Man, a melodrama about a presidential convention revived on Broadway in 2012.

Vidal is survived by his half-sister Nina Straight and half brother Tommy Auchincloss.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Vidal’s family.