For a six-year period the New York Times had a standing policy not to review any of his books because of the fallout from his novel The City and the Pillar, which had a homosexual protagonist.  In the next decade, the1950s, he wrote three detective novels under the pseudonym of Edward Box.  He would also co-write the script for Ben-Hur, but he is better known for such historical novels as Hollywoo
For a six-year period the New York Times had a standing policy not to review any of his books because of the fallout from his novel The City and the Pillar, which had a homosexual protagonist.  In the next decade, the1950s, he wrote three detective novels under the pseudonym of Edward Box.  He would also co-write the script for Ben-Hur, but he is better known for such historical novels as Hollywood and Burr.  FTP, name this American novelist of Julian and Empire, who also wrote a satire focusing on a transsexual in his Myra Breckenridge.
For a six-year period the New York Times had a standing policy not to review any of his books because of the fallout from his novel The City and the Pillar, which had a homosexual protagonist.  
Gore Vidal