• 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...
  • Born George Ames Plimpton, March 18, 1927, in New York, NY; died September 26, 2003, in New York, NY. Author, editor, and actor.
  • Tom Hanks and George Plimpton in Volunteers (1985). Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, and George Plimpton in Little Man Tate (1991).
  • In the sector of sports activities literature, few works have captured the essence of athletic willpower and the human spirit pretty much like George Plimpton’s...
  • George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man.
  • George Plimpton had an interesting niche in American letters. Although he was best known for his warm, funny narratives of his own adventures as a...
  • In George, Being George, Charles Michener, Plimpton’s editor at The New Yorker, explained: Journalists were from a rougher background.
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