George Plimpton was a literary man about town who did it all, from co-founding The Paris Review to boxing (and dribbling and quarterbacking) with the pros. Now, in George, Being George, 200 ...

The most gratifying thing about the new George Plimpton biography, George, Being George (Random House; 423 pages), is that it is nearly as much fun as George Plimpton. For the bulk of his 76 years ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: George Plimpton is an Editor-in-Chief for the Paris Review, The with nine videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 National Press Club Speech ...

Twenty-eight years since its release and 50 years since the Rumble in the Jungle, "When We Were Kings" remains as powerful of a touchstone as ever.

NEW YORK -- George Plimpton, the gentleman editor, literary patron and "participatory journalist" whose fumbling exploits included boxing, trapeze-flying and, most famously, quarterbacking for the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- George Plimpton, the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died. He was 76.

Avaguely contrite George Plimpton tells this story on his friend Norman Mailer: Ernest Hemingway was going to be in New York and Plimpton thought the two hairy-chested, large-living writers should ...

An Upper East Side residence steeped in literary lore, once the hub of writer George Plimpton’s social and professional world, is poised to list for $5.25 million, The Post has learned. The ...