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Nina S. Olds (née Gore; July 25, 1903 – April 3, 1978) [1] was an American actress and socialite known for her three marriages, to Eugene Vidal, Hugh D. Auchincloss, and Robert Olds, as well as her children, authors Gore Vidal and Nina Auchincloss.
Vidal's mother, Nina Gore, was a socialite who made her Broadway theater debut as an extra actress in Sign of the Leopard, in 1928. [17] In 1922, Nina married Eugene Luther Vidal Sr. and thirteen years later, in 1935, divorced him. [18] Nina Gore Vidal then was married two more times; to Hugh D. Auchincloss and to Robert Olds.
Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (formerly Steers, born January 10, 1937) [1] is an American author, journalist, and socialite. [2] She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers , half-sister of Gore Vidal , step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Onassis and socialite Princess Lee Radziwill .
Nin was a friend, and in some cases lover, of many literary figures, including Miller, John Steinbeck, Antonin Artaud, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, James Agee, James Leo Herlihy, and Lawrence Durrell. Her passionate love affair and friendship with Miller strongly influenced her both sexually and as an author.
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. He became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Her lovers included Henry Miller, 17-year-old Bill Pinckard, Edmund Wilson, and dozens of others, including an emotionally charged, but physically unfulfilled, relationship with Gore Vidal. As a child suffering abandonment by her father, Nin wrote, “Close your eyes to the ugly things,” and, against a horrifying backdrop of war and death ...
Through his daughter he was the grandfather of writer Gore Vidal (1925–2012), [14] Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937), who was married to Newton Steers from 1957 to 1974, and then Michael Straight from 1974 to 1998, [15] and Thomas Gore Auchincloss (born 1937) who married Diana "Didi" Lippert.
In 1957, Steers married Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937), the daughter of Hugh D. Auchincloss (1897-1976) and Nina S. Gore (1903–1978). Nina S. Gore had previously been married to Eugene Vidal, with whom she had one child, the writer Gore Vidal, Nina Gore Auchincloss's half-brother. Hugh D. Auchincloss later married Janet Lee Bouvier, the ...