George Plimpton, then a 36-year-old literary editor, endured the brutal realities of a professional football quarterback ...

So begins the first chapter of writer George Plimpton’s 1966 bestselling book “Paper Lion,” based upon his experience of “trying out” as the last-string quarterback at the Detroit Lions training camp ...

George Plimpton boxed with Archie Moore, played quarterback for the Detroit Lions, and played percussion for the New York Philharmonic. He did these jobs, and many others, as an amateur. Plimpton was ...

Writer and editor George Plimpton died last night at age 76. Jeffrey Brown looks at his career with Michael Dirda, senior editor of The Washington Post's Book World. George Plimpton boxed with Archie ...

George Plimpton did it all: The co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, Plimpton also wrote (or edited) 36 books; boxed, pitched, quarterbacked and dribbled with the pros; wrestled the ...

George Plimpton photographing birds in Africa, as seen in “American Masters: Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself.” Credit: Freddy Plimpton Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself ...

Seven of the the late George Plimpton's sports books are being re-released. NPR's Scott Simon talks with sportscaster Bob Costas about the collection. George Plimpton was a literary figure - one of ...

NEW YORK — Of all the raucous parties in the apartment Sarah Dudley Plimpton shared with George Plimpton before his death in 2003, she loves the one on Sept. 10, 2001, the most. “Paul McCartney came,” ...

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

The morning after your 15-2 team suffered a seemingly inconceivable — and utterly devastating — playoff loss, my 9-year-old son, Ollie, who loves you guys even more than I do, came bounding down the ...

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 sprawling ...

George Plimpton’s publishing office and party pad, where literature and being lit often went hand in hand, is looking for a taker. The family of the late co-founder and editor of The Paris Review has ...