Steven Abbott

Steven Abbott has followed Gore Vidal's career since the early 1970s, building the definitive Vidal collection underlying this bibliography. He first met and interviewed Vidal in 1973, those interviews most recently appearing in Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking. Vidal authorized this bibliography, giving Abbott access to his literary archives, agents, publishers and his personal library in Ravello. While doing archival work for Vidal at the Madison Historical Society, Abbott located the original manuscript for Creation, republished as Creation: Restored Edition in 2002.

For a Yale University symposium in 2003, commemorating the 55th anniversary of rhe publication of The City and the Pillar, Abbott created a folio of book cover illustrations from translations of the book from fifteen countries that reflected the diverse cultures, eras, mores, and publishing goals. This bibliography enables the viewer to see these cultural impacts.

Since 1985, Abbott has been an HIV prevention educator and community activist. He is a co-founder and director of the internationally recognized, nationally replicated San Francisco Stop AIDS Project. In 2007, Steven selected Stamford University as repository for the Stop AIDS Project's archives and donated his personal papers relating to AIDS prevention to the collection.

Steven resides in San Francisco and Boston with his partner Jim Stephens. Steven has a Masters of Library Science from Simmons College.