The X Factor
Truman Capote
Playwrights at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (ed.)
Pet Peeves, or, Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff ?
Home Run (ed.)
Latin American Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (ed.)
George Plimpton on Sports
As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure (ed.)
Ernest Shackleton
The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair and Other Excursions and Observations
Footnotes
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chapter III
1. George’s first book, for children, whose main character is said to be much like his mother.
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chapter VI
2. Excerpted from a letter from George to Alice Sedgwick Wohl, Edie’s sister and Jean Stein’s school-mate.
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Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Dudley Plimpton
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George, being George : George Plimpton’s life as told, admired, deplored, and envied by 200 friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances, rivals—and a few unappreciative observers / edited by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.
p. cm.
1. Plimpton, George. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Editors—United States—Biography. 4. Journalists—United States—Biography.
I. Aldrich, Nelson W.
PS3566.L5Z68 2008
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