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George Plimpton. George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was known for " participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting ...
George’s maternal grandmother, Blanche A. Ames, a women’s rights activist, had patents on a hexagonal lumber cutter (1939), a system for trapping low-flying aircraft (1945), and an anti ...
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...
Jan 15, 2009 · In George, Being George, Nelson Aldrich Jr.’s affectionate and absorbing oral history, we learn that Plimpton never wrote about Kennedy’s slaying, but that many years later, over cocktails ...
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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PLIMPTON, George (Ames) 1927-2003PERSONAL: Born March 18, 1927, in New York, NY; died September 25, 2003, in New York, NY; son of Francis T. P. (a lawyer and former U.S. Source for information on Plimpton, George (Ames) 1927-2003: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series dictionary.
