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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.
Apr 9, 2014 · A graduate of Harvard University and Kings College, Cambridge, Plimpton was recruited to Paris by Peter Matthiessen in 1952 and signed onto the project shortly thereafter. “I’ve decided to stay...
Sep 29, 2003 · Plimpton brought the Left Bank to NYC—people like Peter Mathiessen, William Styron, Terry Southern. The Left Bank really became East 72 nd Street. And his apartment, with those windows...
Aug 4, 2010 · George Plimpton was the editor of The Paris Review, a celebrity bon vivant and a founder of participatory journalism who practiced with the Detroit Lions and fought a professional boxer and lived...
Sep 21, 2013 · A classic piece of participatory journalism, a genre Plimpton basically invented, on his very brief tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions. “He had tackled me high and straightened me up with...
- Max Linsky
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.
American Master George Plimpton co-founded The Paris Review and was the literary magazine’s editor for 50 years, from the first edition in 1953 to his death in September 2003. A masterstroke...
