George Ames Plimpton (18 March 1927 – 25 September 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is best-remembered for his sports writing and for founding The Paris Review.
Plimpton was born in New York, the son of Pauline (née Ames) and Francis T. P. Plimpton, a diplomat, lawyer, and name partner of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. Plimpton was also a maternal great-grandson of Adelbert Ames, a decorated general in the Union...
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George Ames Plimpton (18 March 1927 – 25 September 2003) was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is best-remembered for his sports writing and for founding The Paris Review.
Plimpton was born in New York, the son of Pauline (née Ames) and Francis T. P. Plimpton, a diplomat, lawyer, and name partner of the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. Plimpton was also a maternal great-grandson of Adelbert Ames, a decorated general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and Reconstruction-era Governor of Mississippi and great-great-grandson of controversial Union General Benjamin Franklin Butler, known as "Beast" Butler in the South.
He attended St. Bernard's School, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Daytona Beach High School, where he received his High School diploma before entering Harvard University in July 1944. He wrote for the Harvard Lampoon, was a member of the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770, Pi Eta and the Porcellian Club. His field of concentration was English....
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