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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 ...
In his new book, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , Mr. Plimpton, as he did with Edie Sedgwick and Robert F. Kennedy, has...
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 was ...
Oct 27, 2008 · This oral biography of the editor and writer George Plimpton treats “George” as much more than a first name: it is a flattering adjective, a state of mind.
Dec 23, 2008 · George Plimpton was a literary man about town who did it all, from co-founding The Paris Review to boxing (and dribbling and quarterbacking) with the pros.
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Sep 28, 2003 · A few weeks before entering the ring at Stillman’s Gym against Archie (the Mongoose) Moore, George Plimpton ordered a “wildcat” drink called Crashweight Formula #7.
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Oct 20, 2008 · No wonder Philip Roth, in his novel “Exit Ghost,” made an elegiac set-piece of the death, at seventy-six, in 2003, of George Plimpton—the aristocratic, Zelig-like, heron-resembling founder ...
