Williwaw (novel)

Williwaw
The first edition
Author	Gore Vidal
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York
Publication date	1946
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	222
ISBN	0919948553
Followed by	In a Yellow Wood

Williwaw is the debut novel of Gore Vidal, written when he was 19 and first mate of a U.S. Army supply ship stationed in the Aleutian Islands. The story combines war drama, maritime adventure and a murder plot. The book was first published in 1946 in the United States by E.P. Dutton. Williwaw is the term, widely thought to be Native American in origin, for a sudden, violent katabatic wind common to the Aleutian Islands.

Plot summary

The story is set on a U.S. ship in the Arctic waters around the Aleutians in the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the local storm season during WW2. The nervousness and tension of the crew and a handful of passengers at the approach of the williwaw is stretched to breaking point when a murder is committed on the ship.

References

Gore Vidal

Plays	Visit to a Small Planet (1957) The Best Man (1960) Weekend (1968) An Evening With Richard Nixon (1972)

Novels	Williwaw (1946) The City and the Pillar (1948) Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) Messiah (1954) Julian (1964) Washington, D.C. (1967) Myra Breckinridge (1968) Two Sisters (1970) Burr (1973) Myron (1974) 1876 (1976) Kalki (1978) Creation (1981) Duluth (1983) Lincoln (1984) Empire (1987) Hollywood (1990) Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal (1992) The Smithsonian Institution (1998) The Golden Age (2000)

Screenplays	The Catered Affair (1956) I Accuse! (1958) The Left Handed Gun (1958) The Scapegoat (1959) Ben Hur (1959) (uncredited) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) The Best Man (1964) Is Paris Burning? (1966) Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) Caligula (1979) Dress Gray (1986) The Sicilian (1987) (uncredited) Billy the Kid (1989) Dimenticare Palermo (1989)

Teleplays	The Telltale Clue Danger Climax! Omnibus Suspense The Best of Broadway Goodyear Television Playhouse Studio One in Hollywood Matinee Theater General Electric Theater NBC Sunday Showcase Ford Startime

People	Eugene Luther Vidal (father) Nina Straight (half-sister) Burr Steers (nephew) Hugh Auchincloss Steers (nephew)

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