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, Author, edited by Sarah Dudley Plimpton. Random $24.95 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6342-0 These tame "excursions" (edited by the author's widow) are a far cry from past Plimpton adventures ...

As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a Thanksgiving Day game with the Green Bay Packers, some die-hard fans may be fantasizing about what it would be like to be on the field themselves: calling plays ...

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 ...

He recalled a story that Plimpton once told him about Ernest Hemingway. While visiting the adventurous novelist at his home in Havana, Cuba—where Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” and much of ...

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 ...

It's been quite a spring for writer-editor-actor-ornithologist-fireworks-commissioner George Plimpton. He turned 75 in March. He was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Last night, ...

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 ...

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 ...