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Plimpton was made an officier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [19] An oral biography, George, Being George was edited by Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., and released on October 21, 2008.
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. Now, in George, Being George, 200...
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Jan 15, 2009 · An affectionate and absorbing oral history raises questions of whether George Plimpton's amiable exterior concealed a man without qualities.
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...
May 23, 2013 · If ever there was a man who made a virtue out of failure, it was George Plimpton. He played quarterback with the Detroit Lions without even knowing where to put his hands to take the snap.
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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 ...
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Sep 29, 2003 · On Sept. 26, George Plimpton died in his sleep, at the age of 76. Plimpton was a writer-raconteur and dilettante in the best sense of the word: He... Advertisement
