Novelist Gore Vidal has fractured spine
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Gore Vidal fractured his spine in a fall two weeks ago and canceled an appearance scheduled for today at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Toledo, Ohio.
“I’m trying to grow a new vertebra, which I believe tadpoles can do, but I’m not so sure about humans,” the 83-year-old author joked in a telephone interview Wednesday from his home in Los Angeles.
Vidal said he fell while entering a restaurant in Los Angeles and was briefly hospitalized.
He said he wasn’t wearing a brace or taking painkillers. When asked how long he would need to recuperate, Vidal responded, “I don’t think about such things.”
Vidal said he was working on a new novel, about the U.S.-Mexican war in the 1840s.
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