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Nonfiction: George Plimpton.

In the News

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  Plimpton uses Cherenkov radiation to express deeper melancholy during blue phase.

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  Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for something, reasons the ever-curious Plimpton.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• High-energy literature
• Plimpton engine - an engine which uses Plimpton as a source for power, control, or other properties.
• The Noel Harrison Sensation

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Jean Stein (nonfiction) - Jean Babette Stein (February 9, 1934 – April 30, 2017) was an American author and editor. Stein authored, with George Plimpton as editor, a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, titled American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy. With Plimpton, Stein co-wrote the best-selling book Edie: American Girl, based on the life of socialite/actress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, in 1982. Norman Mailer wrote of Edie: "This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for."[citation needed]

Stein also worked as a magazine editor. In the late 1950s she was an editor, with Plimpton, at The Paris Review.

External links:

• George Plimpton @ Wikipedia
• George Plimpton joins the New York Philharmonic - Plimpton describes joining the NYPO to play percussion under Leonard Bernstein.

Attribution:

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