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George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. ... Plimpton pulled off a widely reported April Fools' Day prank.
Apr 9, 2014 · George Plimpton (1927–2003) was the editor of The Paris Review from its founding in 1953 until his death in 2003. A graduate of Harvard University and Kings College, Cambridge, Plimpton...
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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Viking (New York, NY), Volume 1, 1957, Volume 2, 1963, Volume 3, 1967, Volume 4, 1976, Volume 5, 1981, Volume 6, 1984, Volume 7, 1986, Volume 8, 1988, Volume 9, 1992. (With Peter Ardery) The American Literary Anthology, number 1, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1968, number 2, Random House (New York, NY)...
Out of My League(baseball anecdotes), Harper (New York, NY), 1961. Paper Lion(football anecdotes), Harper (New York, NY), 1966. The Bogey Man(golf anecdotes), Harper (New York, NY), 1968. (Editor and author of introduction) Pierre Etchebaster, Pierre's Book: The Game of Court Tennis, Barre Publishers (Barre, MA), 1971. (With Alex Karras and John Go...
The Rabbit's Umbrella(juvenile), Viking (New York, NY), 1955. (With William Kronick) Plimpton! Shoot-out at Rio Lobo(script), American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV), 1970. Plimpton! The Man on the Flying Trapeze(script), ABC-TV, 1970. (With William Kronick) Plimpton! Did You Hear the One About…? (script), ABC-TV, 1971. (With William Kronick) Plimpt...
Another writing incident that brought Plimpton prominence occurred in 1985, the result of a April Fool's joke. He made up a pitcher who was also Tibetan Monk who could throw a baseball harder than anyone else, 168 mph, and published his work in Sports Illustrated.
Plimpton, George Ames (b. 18 March 1927 in New York City; d. 25 September 2003 in New York City), editor in chief and cofounder of the Paris Review, popular writer, and principal practitioner of participatory journalism during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Oct 9, 2003 · George Ames Plimpton, writer and madcap, died on September 25th, aged 76. Oct 9th 2003 |. Getty News. PERHAPS Ernest Hemingway started it. In the 1920s he was a hungry young writer in Paris,...
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Sep 14, 2021 · George Ames Plimpton (1927-2003) was a journalist, author, and literary editor best known for co-founding the Paris Review, and for his participatory style of sports writing. Plimpton was born in New York City on March 18, 1927.
