George Plimpton (nonfiction)
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.
He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.
He was also famous for "participatory journalism" which included competing 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.
In the News
Plimpton uses Cherenkov radiation to express deeper melancholy during blue phase.
Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for something, reasons the ever-curious Plimpton.
Fiction cross-reference
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- Gnomon Chronicles
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- 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.