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...DIED. George Plimpton, 76, founding editor of the Paris Review, author and occasional film actor; in New York City. Though he wrote and edited almost 30 books, Plimpton also found time to lead one of the more interesting lives of the 20th century. At the Paris Review he championed the work of Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac. As a journalist he tried out for the Detroit Lions (an experience he described in Paper Lion). He also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy...
George A. Plimpton ’48, the literary critic and legendary prankster whose career as a humorist began at the Harvard Lampoon, died Thursday at his Manhattan apartment...
From 1953 until his death, Plimpton edited the prestigious Paris Review, nurturing the nascent careers of Jack Kerouac and Phillip Roth...
...irreverent Plimpton was best known as the author of more than two dozen books about his eclectic stints as a boxer, hockey goalie, orchestral percussionist, trapeze artist and pyrotechnic...
What draws intellectual types to the sport? There's something about the mere act of punishing a ball with a stick that brings about a truce in the eternal struggle between jock and nerd, and lures such luminaries as John Updike, Richard Ford, George Plimpton and the late Stephen Jay Gould to take their cuts. Are they slumming for street cred, trying to show that, like good postmodernists, they can switch-hit: both high-and lowbrow...