George Plimpton (1927–2003)
Autor(a) de Truman Capote
About the Author
George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, 1927. He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank mostrar mais driver in Italy for the U.S. Army from 1945 through 1948. After graduation, at about 27 years of age, Plimpton went with his friends to Paris. There they founded the Paris Review in 1953 and published poetry and short story writers and did interviews. In the '50s, Plimpton and staff came to New York, where they kept the Review going for half a century. The Review has published over 150 issues. Plimpton also served as a volunteer for Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential run and was walking in front of him as the candidate was assassinated in the kitchen of a Los Angeles hotel. Plimpton was known as a "participatory journalist". In order to research his books and articles, he quarterbacked in a pre-season NFL game, pitched to several all-stars (retiring Willie Mays and Richie Ashburn) in an exhibition prior to Baseball's 1959 All-Star game, performed as a trapeze artist for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, and fought boxers Archie Moore and Sugar Ray Robinson. Plimpton was alson known by the nickname the Prince of Cameos for the amount of work he did in films, playing small parts and screenwriting. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. Within a month of the academy induction, the French made him a Chevalier, the Legion of Honor's highest rank. The Guild, an arts organization based on Long Island, gave him a lifetime achievement award. Plimpton was also a member of PEN; the Pyrotechnics Guild International; the National Football League Alumni Association; and the Mayflower Descendants Society. In 2003, Plimpton decided to write his memoirs, signing a $750,000 deal with Little, Brown and Co. Before he could finish, George Plimpton died, on September 26, 2003 of natural causes at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por George Plimpton
As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure (Explorers Club Classic) (2003) 85 exemplares
The Paris Review 22 1960 Fall-Winter — Editor — 4 exemplares
The Paris Review 68 1976 Winter 3 exemplares
The Paris Review 108 1988 Fall 3 exemplares
Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 3 exemplares
The Paris Review 30 1963 Summer-Fall — Editor — 3 exemplares
The Paris Review 19 1958 Summer — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 37 1966 Spring — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 34 1965 Spring-Summer — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 81 1981 Fall — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 112 1989 Winter — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 155 2000 Summer — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 64 1975 Winter — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 121 1991 Winter — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 75 1979 Spring 2 exemplares
THE AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY / 2 The second annual collection of the best from literary magazines (1969) 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 55 1972 Fall 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 109 1988 Winter — Editor — 2 exemplares
The American literary anthology 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 24 1960 Summer-Fall — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 71 1977 Fall 2 exemplares
The Paris Review no. 173 : Shirley Hazzard 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 127 1993 Summer 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 23. Spring 1960 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 130 1 exemplar
Writers At Work, Fourth Series 1 exemplar
THE PARIS REVIEW 150, 45TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 10 1955 Fall — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review #103, Summer 1987 1 exemplar
The Paris Review #127 Summer 1993 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 12 1956 Spring 1 exemplar
The Paris Review #122, Spring 1992 1 exemplar
The Paris Review: Number 86 (Winter 1982) 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 112 Winter 1989 1 exemplar
The Paris Review #78 Summer 1980 1 exemplar
The Paris Review. # 120 (Fall 1991) 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 152 1999 Fall 1 exemplar
The art of fiction no. 149: John Le Carre 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 62 1975 Summer — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Hamptons : Long Island's East End 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 85 1982 Fall 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 131 1994 Summer 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 101 1986 Winter — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 23 1960 Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 57 1974 Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 103 1987 Summer — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 83 1982 Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 77 1980 Winter-Spring 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 25 1961 Winter-Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 33 1965 Winter-Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 36 1966 Winter — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 44 1968 Fall — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 45 1968 Winter — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 118 1991 Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 17 1957 Fall-Winter — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 11 1955 Winter 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 53 1972 Winter 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 14 1956 Fall — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 5 1954 Spring — Editor — 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 47 1969 Summer — Editor — 1 exemplar
Sports Classics 10-Volume Hardcover Boxed Set: Paper Lion; The Glory of Their Times; Farewell To Sport; Veeck - as in… (1970) 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 4 1953 Winter — Editor — 1 exemplar
How to make a speech 1 exemplar
The Paris Review 6 1954 Summer — Editor — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Paris Review Book of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God,… (2003) — Introdução — 323 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Best Of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: choice entries from the harry's bar & american grill imitation hemingway competition (1989) — Introdução, algumas edições — 98 exemplares
Above New York: A Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs of New York City (1988) — Introdução; Introdução — 96 exemplares
Baseball, the Perfect Game : An All-Star Anthology Celebrating the Game's Greatest Players, Teams, and Moments (2005) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Plimpton, George Ames
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-03-18
- Data de falecimento
- 2003-09-25
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University (BA|1950)
University of Cambridge (BA|1952) - Ocupações
- journalist
actor
editor
writer - Relações
- Plimpton, Taylor (son)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2002)
United States Army (WWII)
The Paris Review
Sports Illustrated
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Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 231
- Also by
- 21
- Membros
- 4,156
- Popularidade
- #6,052
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 54
- ISBN
- 202
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 1