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	Telegraph \| News \| George Plimpton
		George Plimpton, who died on Thursday aged 76, was a journalist and writer who became a celebrity for participating in his own stories; thus he boxed with a light heavyweight champion, performed with an eminent orchestra, joined a professional American football team and flew with trapeze artists in a circus.
		George Plimpton edited the Paris Review from an office below his flat overlooking the East River in Manhattan; in the office there was a chair nailed to the ceiling, a souvenir of his time attempting to become a lion tamer.
		George Ames Plimpton, the son of a lawyer and diplomat, was born in New York on March 18 1927 and educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, and Harvard, where he read English.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/27/db2702.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/09/27/ixopright.html (947 words)

	Jonathan's web site - George Plimpton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose career was a happy lifelong competition between scholarly pursuits and madcap attempts -- chronicled in self-deprecating prose -- to try his hand at glamorous jobs for which he was invariably unsuited, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.
		George Ames Plimpton was born on March 18, 1927, in New York, the son of Francis T. Plimpton, a corporate lawyer (he was one of the early partners in the firm that is now Debevoise and Plimpton) who became a United Nations ambassador.
		Plimpton took one grand New York institution with him: the effervescent swirl of young and old, of hard-drinking literary lions, starry-eyed editorial assistants and totally random passers-by that was a Plimpton party.
	www.qkw.com /jon/georgeplimpton.htm (3806 words)

	George Plimpton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer and actor.
		At Harvard, Plimpton was a classmate and close personal friend of Robert Kennedy.
		Plimpton, along with former decathlete Rafer Johnson, was credited with helping wrestle Sirhan Sirhan to the ground when Kennedy was assassinated following his victory in the 1968 California Democratic primary at the former The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Plimpton (693 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / George Plimpton, 76; 'Paper Lion' author, longtime literary editor, ...
		Plimpton as a sportswriter was every bit as influential on a younger generation of nonfiction writers.
		Plimpton was at Cambridge, he was hired in 1953 as editor of the newly founded Paris Review, designed to showcase unknown or little-known writers in English -- fiction writers and poets -- and to publish interviews with literary giants.
		Plimpton made final corrections to the 50th anniversary issue, to be published next month, the night before he died.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/09/27/george_plimpton_76_paper_lion_author_longtime_literary_editor_amateur_athlete?mode=PF (1032 words)

	Journalist George Plimpton dies at 76 / 'Paper Lion' author edited Paris Review
		As a "participatory journalist," Plimpton believed that it was not enough for writers of nonfiction to simply observe; they needed to immerse themselves in whatever they were covering to understand fully what was involved.
		Plimpton was first married to Freddy Medora Espy, a photographer's assistant, in 1968.
		George Ames Plimpton was born in New York on March 18, 1927, the son of Francis T. Plimpton, a successful corporate lawyer who became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/27/PLIMPTON.TMP&type=printable (834 words)

	Poynter Online - Writer at Work: George Plimpton, RIP
		Ink mourns the passing of George Plimpton, a writer known in popular culture for his adventures as the “participant observer.” His book “Paper Lion” describes his misadventures as a stunt stand-in for a professional quarterback.
		Plimpton also began interviewing the greatest writers of the 20th Century, work published in The Paris Review, and re-published in several books under the title “Writers at Work.” A spot check with Amazon.com revealed that at least eight of these books were available for purchase.
		Added to Plimpton’s own prodigious body of work, his experiments with form and content, his easy movement between high and low culture, and his embodiment of the writer’s life, they form one of the great literary careers of the last century.
	www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=1&aid=49388 (416 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Obituary: George Plimpton
		George Plimpton, who has died aged 76, became a best-selling author by not only writing about sporting heroes but by participating in those sports as well.
		Plimpton took two bottles of absinthe to the founding meeting, and, having helped choose the title, was appointed editor.
		Plimpton was the son of a patrician New York family: his lawyer father served in the US delegation at the United Nations; Adlai Stevenson was a family friend.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1051979,00.html (702 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- George Plimpton is willing to go to the mat to get a story
		George Plimpton was once known to television viewers as the intrepid amateur who pursued his dreams of glory on the unfriendly turf of reality.
		Perhaps the most accurate reading on George Plimpton can be obtained by a glance at the list of books he's written or co-written or edited, 18 books in all.
		It wasn't too long ago that George Plimpton was popping up on TV committing all sorts of adventurous deeds -- and I wish he would come back and do some more, or, that failing, ABC or one of the cable outfits would rerun them.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/19870719-63-georgepl.html (878 words)

	Boxing loses a "champion" in George Plimpton by Don Stradley (October 4, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Plimpton's name may not mean much to the current generation of readers and TV watchers, but during the 1960s and '70s he was not only a revered media figure but also a true friend of boxing.
		With Plimpton there was a dry wit and elegance that wouldn't be tolerated or appreciated in today's era of sound bytes and scandal.
		For those who criticized Plimpton, consider this: Not only was he willing to compete, albeit briefly, with professional athletes who could easily take him apart, he was also dealing with a hostile audience who booed him and laughed at his efforts.
	www.boxingranks.com /Articles/Article254.htm (759 words)

	ESPN.com: GEN - George Plimpton dies
		Plimpton died Thursday night at his Manhattan apartment, his longtime friend, restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, said Friday.
		Plimpton turned his head away as he spoke, his clear voice turned foggy.
		Plimpton was married twice: to Freddy Medora Espy, whom he divorced in 1988, and to Sara Whitehead Dudley.
	espn.go.com /gen/news/2003/0926/1623989.html (982 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - George Plimpton Times Union Article
		Plimpton, 72, has never given himself a salary from The Paris Review, the literary magazine he founded in 1953 in Paris and which is about to publish its 150th issue.
		Plimpton is a cultural bridge to the 21st century.
		Plimpton spent last weekend in Chicago, where he began filming scenes for the upcoming movie "Visitors.'' He sheepishly admitted he's not sure who's directing the film, a remake of the French film by the same name.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/tuplimpton.html (1181 words)

	USATODAY.com - Author George Plimpton dies at age 76 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		NEW YORK (AP) — George Plimpton, the gentleman editor, literary patron and "participatory journalist" whose fumbling exploits included boxing, trapeze-flying and, most famously, quarterbacking for the Detroit Lions, has died at 76.
		A native of New York, Plimpton was born into society — diplomat's son — and was a Harvard man with an upper-class accent.
		Over the summer, Plimpton decided to write his memoirs, signing a $750,000 deal with Little, Brown and Co. "I have a lot of life left to go, but now is the time to think about it and put something together," Plimpton told The Associated Press at the time.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2003-09-26-plimpton-obit_x.htm (1026 words)

	George Plimpton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Connecting the Plimpton at the top with the one the bottom is the only clue offered about how a magazine founded in 1953 is still going strong 50 years later.
		Plimpton was an avatar of a particular kind of male experience: the sporting experience.
		But a tacit sport that he engaged in was the evasion of, or the braving of, all sorts of projections that came at him, from men and women alike.
	www.mrbellersneighborhood.com /stories/1390.html (1429 words)

	village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts
		Writing the job description that might produce another George Plimpton is an exercise in absurdity, but it suggests what kind of person edited The Paris Review for 50 years and how hard it will be to replace him.
		It was conceived as a vehicle for established writers to explain their craft, and Plimpton conducted the first one in 1952 with E.M. Forster, whom he knew from his days at Cambridge University.
		According to one friend, Plimpton invented the contemporary interview form, which was later adopted by Rolling Stone and Playboy, and which he used to great effect in his oral histories.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0343/cotts2.php (866 words)

	The Golf Channel - For George Plimpton, the Size of the Ball Mattered - September 29, 2003
		Alas, if only this were a ruse and Plimpton had temporarily burrowed under the pearly gates to find out what it's like on the other side so he could return and write about it for us.
		Brevity, Plimpton would remind you at a New York cocktail party, was the soul of wit.
		Plimpton would also know that it was a contemporary, the wickedly wry Dorothy Parker, who sent Shakespeare up when she begged to differ.
	www.thegolfchannel.com /core.aspx?page=15100&dv=6216327&select=11028&select2=0 (632 words)

	USATODAY.com - In appreciation of a professional amateur George Plimpton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		To movie and TV viewers, Plimpton was a patrician actor who portrayed Dr. John Carter's grandfather on ER, the psychiatrist in Good Will Hunting, and the voice of the emcee of a crooked spelling bee on The Simpsons.
		Plimpton fashioned himself a "participatory journalist" who boxed with prizefighter Archie Moore, fought in a bullfight staged by Ernest Hemingway and played the triangle with the New York Philharmonic, which he found most terrifying of all.
		At last Sunday's Lions game, Plimpton and former players were cheered at a halftime celebration marking the 40th anniversary of his stint as a literary Lion.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2003-09-27-plimpton-usat_x.htm (788 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - George Plimpton
		Plimpton's frequently hapless adventures — as "professional" athlete, stand-up comedian, movie bad guy or circus performer — which he chronicled in witty, elegant prose in nearly three dozen books.
		Plimpton believed that it was not enough for writers of nonfiction to simply observe; they needed to immerse themselves in whatever they were covering to understand fully what was involved.
		George Ames Plimpton was born in New York on March 18, 1927, the son of Francis T. Plimpton, a successful corporate lawyer who became the American ambassador to the United Nations.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/plimpton.html (1412 words)

	George Plimpton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Plimpton has also been a bullfighter, an orchestra conductor, a baseball and football player, a boxer, a circus performer and a tennis pro.
		George Plimpton's principal career was writing, something he pursued while at Harvard (he was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon) and while serving on the editing staff of Paris Review in the '50s and Horizon and Sports Illustrated in the '60s.
		As the 1990s gave way to the new millennium Plimpton was still going strong despite the effects of the passing years, and in 2001 alone he essayed a supporting role in the comedy Just Visiting and provided voiceover work for the short film Bullet in the Brain.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+57087 (374 words)

	PW: George Plimpton: A Most American Boswell - 11/17/1997 - Publishers Weekly
		George Plimpton, the protean journalist, editor and professional dilettante, towers over the galleys and audio cassettes amassed on his desk at the Paris Review and shouts amiably into the phone: "Anne, bring me a Python.
		As Plimpton's python lies on the floor between us, it is this particular quality that comes into sharpest focus: Plimpton's tendency to be present at spectacular events, then to withdraw to the margins, the better to provide his reader with a wide-angle report on the events he chronicles.
		Plimpton speaks with a singular accent, which he once characterized as "eastern seaboard cosmopolitan." One guesses it is the product, in part, of our most elite schools, social clubs and universities.
	www.publishersweekly.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA165195&publication=publishersweekly (1864 words)

	Blog of Death: George Plimpton
		George Ames Plimpton, the actor, author and editor of the Paris Review, died on Sept. 25.
		Plimpton had just put the publication's 50th anniversary issue to bed when he died.
		George was always ready to include us in the festivities and took us along when he was being interviewd on "Good Morning, America" for the July 4th fireworks display.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000355.html (386 words)

	Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: George Plimpton -- September 26, 2003
		JEFFREY BROWN: George Plimpton boxed with Archie Moore, pitched to Willie Mayes, and joined the circus, and he did all that, and much more, as a writer.
		JEFFREY BROWN: The George Plimpton who many Americans know is the author of "Paper Lion" and other books, in which he thrust himself out into the playing fields as a sort of average guy and then wrote about it.
		JEFFREY BROWN: Then there was George Plimpton, the editor of the "Paris Review," a journal with a very important history and legacy.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/july-dec03/plimpton_9-26.html (872 words)

	ipedia.com: George Plimpton Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer and actor.
		Plimpton was a classmate of Robert Kennedy at Harvard, and helped wrestle Sirhan Sirhan to the ground when Kennedy was assassinated.
		Plimpton died at his apartment in New York City at the age of 76.
	www.ipedia.com /george_plimpton.html (415 words)

	George Plimpton vs. Archie Moore \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		George Brown said that Dempsey could have licked anybody in the modern era easy as pie; he was just the greatest tiger there had been, ‘except for this tiger we got sitting here in this cab,’ and he would laugh and dig me in the ribs.
		Plimpton and his trainer arrived at the gym and “Lou Stillman led us through the back area of his place into an arrangement of cubicles as helter-skelter as a Tangier slum.” Brown sat Plimpton down and started wrapping his hands.
		George Plimpton and Archie Moore returned to their cubicles and a mob filled the cramped space.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1916/george-plimpton-archie-moore (3490 words)

	George Plimpton, Author and Editor, Dies at 76
		George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and a patron to Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac has died.
		George Plimpton in 1963 as a third-string quarterback with the Detroit Lions, an experience he chronicled in "Paper Lion."
		eorge Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist whose career was a happy lifelong competition between scholarly pursuits and madcap attempts — chronicled in self-deprecating prose — to try his hand at glamorous jobs for which he was invariably unsuited, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/09/27/obituaries/27PLIM.html?ex=1379995200&en=b37d17ab42768d9f&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (769 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Man in the Flying Lawn Chair: And Other Excursions and Observations - George ...
		Plimpton, who died in 2003, strikes us as graceful even when he's recounting his disastrous forays into the world of sports.
		These tame "excursions" (edited by the author's widow) are a far cry from past Plimpton adventures, where the inventor of "participatory journalism" famously cast himself as a boxer or a circus performer.
		The title essay is the only high-flying piece, as Plimpton merely listens to and reports the fascinating and tragic story of a man who strapped helium balloons to a lawn chair and took a ride high above the California coast.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=8I2ihEUCpu&isbn=0812973720&itm=2 (942 words)

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