George Plimpton

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American writer (1927-2003)

United States WritersLived 1927 to 2003 · aged 76

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George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent.

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Plimpton playing basketball at Miami Dade Community College in 1975

Plimpton with Herb Caen and Ann Miller in 1993

Awards 1

1969St. Louis Literary Award

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MotherPauline Plimpton

Connected to George 6

Marsha MasonAlso in Beyond the Law (1968)

Frances SternhagenAlso in Coney Island (1991)

Jerzy KosińskiAlso in A Fool and His Money (1989)

Sam McMurrayAlso in L.A. Story (1991)

Bruce WeitzAlso in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

Lorene ScafariaAlso in Bullet in the Brain (2001)

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George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

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