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...

Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) is an American actress and member of the Carradine family. Her feature-film debut was in Rollover (1981); she...

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Tom Bean and Luke Poling about the writer George Plimpton...

Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton. In 1960, Plimpton, not an athlete, arranged to pitch to a lineup of professional...

cousin of writer George Plimpton. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her father died of cancer, aged 50, when Plimpton was twelve years...

George Arthur Plimpton (July 13, 1855 – July 1, 1936) was an American publisher and philanthropist. Plimpton was born in Walpole, Massachusetts, the son...

Sidd Finch" written by George Plimpton and first published in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated. According to Plimpton, Finch was raised in...

Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s. The film took Gast 22...

Clarke, Gerald, Capote: A Biography, 1988, Simon & Schuster: p308. Plimpton, George, editor, Truman Capote, 1997, Doubleday: p162-163. "Truman Capote's...

Plimpton Prize, an American literary award named for George Plimpton Plimpton 322, a Babylonian clay tablet named for George Arthur Plimpton Plimpton...

is a 1968 sports comedy film starring Alan Alda as writer George Plimpton, based on Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction book of the same name depicting his tryout...

longtime editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton, who died in 2003. The Plimpton Prize is funded by Sarah Plimpton, his widow, and Terry McDonell, president...

1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham, and is considered a subgenre...

finished addressing supporters in the hotel's main ballroom. Authors George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, former professional football player Rosey...

Broadway. During this period, Dante, who was a Manhattan neighbor of George Plimpton, was invited to serve as the publisher of the Paris Review, as whose...

established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published new works by Jack...

becomes addicted to eating the Ribwich and follows its tour. Writer George Plimpton appeared as himself. The episode received positive reviews. While watching...

but the Disney show used the third movement rather than the first. George Plimpton hosted and gave commentary and background information before and after...

service include Secretary of Navy George Bancroft, Benjamin Butler, and Charles C. Krulak. Authors George Plimpton, John Knowles, Gore Vidal, John Irving...

grandchildren. George Plimpton related an anecdote about Spinelli having bought at auction an evening with the Plimptons, in New York City, during which George Plimpton...

written by Michael Mailer and Adams. The film stars Jonathan Penner, George Plimpton, Wendy Adams, Gerald Orange, Chuck Pfiefer and Sandra Bullock in her...

a press conference at CBGBs in New York City which was attended by George Plimpton, staffers at The Paris Review, and staffers of Open City magazine....

period in Europe. In Paris, he became friends with writers Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones and Irwin Shaw, among...

the subjects of George Plimpton's nonfiction book Paper Lion (published in 1966), he was one of the two principal subjects of Plimpton's follow-up book...

the years include: Cormac McCarthy Stewart O'Nan Elizabeth Wurtzel George Plimpton Jeffrey Eugenides Francine Prose Alice Munro Elissa Schappell Use Me...

Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for 16 years, under George Plimpton. She also writes The Engines of Narrative Substack and teaches writing...

drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. It is based on George Plimpton's 1997 book, Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances...

"Jonathan Yardley". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 31, 2018. George Plimpton (Spring 1996). "John Gregory Dunne, The Art of Screenwriting No. 2"...

coverage by the mid-1970s. When the first show aired on October 11, 1975, with George Carlin as its host, it was called NBC's Saturday Night because ABC featured...

art editor of The Paris Review, working alongside founder and editor George Plimpton. William Pène du Bois was born in Nutley, New Jersey in May 1916. His...