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Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was the longtime companion of American writer Gore Vidal. They were together for 53 years, until Austen's death.
Jul 11, 2017 · Death was “unavoidable,” Vidal said of his partner Howard Austen’s death in 2003. “One or the other is going to die, it’s inevitable that both will be dead. I’m stoic.”
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Nov 11, 2013 · The thing that remains in many people’s minds if they have heard of Howard Austen, Gore Vidal’s partner of 53 years, is Vidal’s contention that the key to their relationship was not having sex. Vidal also claimed that he didn’t believe in gay people, just gay sexual acts.
Aug 1, 2012 · Yet his account of Austen's death in 2003 in his memoir, Point to Point Navigation is heartbreaking. Gore Vidal did not want to be known as a gay writer. And he was much more than that.
Nov 8, 2013 · Mr. Steers said Mr. Vidal, in his original will, left everything to Howard Austen, his partner of 53 years who died in 2003, then amended it in 2011, awarding it to Harvard.
Aug 1, 2012 · For 53 years, he had a live-in companion, Howard Austen, a former advertising executive, but the secret of their relationship, he often said, was that they did not sleep together.
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In 1950, Vidal met Howard Austen, who became his partner for the next 53 years, until Austen's death. He said that the secret to his long relationship with Austen was that they did not have sex with each other: "It's easy to sustain a relationship when sex plays no part, and impossible, I have observed, when it does."
