Gore Vidal, writer with a Welsh connection?

Gore Vidal

Writer, commentator on politics and current affairs. Screen writer of the block-buster movie Ben Hur. He was born in West Point in America and had a succesful yet controversial career. Vidal's Welsh connection is remote and yet to be confirmed. He died  on 1st August 2012, at eighty six years of age.

Connection: American of Welsh descent.