He toured Vietnam with the USO, entertaining troops along with Art Buchwald and George Plimpton.

Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

A series of advertisements featuring George Plimpton were produced, that demonstrated the superiority of the Intellivision's graphics and sound to those of the Atari 2600, using side-by-side game comparisons.

* 1927 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor ( d. 2003 )

* March 18 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor ( d. 2003 )

Though established somewhat in rivalry with the Paris Review, George Plimpton also had served on Merlin's editorial board.

Guest announcers were often brought into the booth including Paul Hornung, George Plimpton, Alex Karras, and McLean Stevenson.

She is a " very distant " cousin of the late writer and editor George Plimpton, and, despite the different spelling, cartoonist Bill Plympton.

* George Plimpton as Dr. Henry Lipkin, Psychologist

In Paris, he became friends with writers Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones and Irwin Shaw, among others.

George Plimpton was also part of the press corps, covering the fight for Sports Illustrated.

In 2003, film director Woody Allen, actor Robert De Niro, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and writer George Plimpton joined a pro-French tourism campaign as a direct response to anti-French sentiment in the U. S. related to the Iraq invasion.

From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as the Art Editor for The Paris Review.

He was one of the founding editors of The Paris Review along with Thomas Guinzburg, Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and John P. C. Train.

Adelbert Ames was also the great-grandfather of George Plimpton.

John F. Kennedy, through George Plimpton, is indirectly responsible for a full-length biography of General Ames.

At Harvard, he lived in Eliot House with Paul Matisse, grandson of French artist Henri Matisse, with future Paris Review founders George Plimpton and John Train, and with Stephen Joyce, grandson of Irish writer James Joyce.

George Ames Plimpton ( March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003 ) was an American journalist, writer, editor, actor, and gamesman.

George Ames Plimpton was born in New York City on March 18, 1927, and spent his childhood in New York City, attending St. Bernard's School and growing up in an apartment duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side located at 1165 Fifth Avenue.

He was the son of Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton, and the grandson of Frances Taylor Pearsons and George Arthur Plimpton.

George had three siblings: Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Jr., Oakes Ames Plimpton, and Sarah Gay Plimpton.

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

* 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author ( d. 2008 )

* 1891 – George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist ( d. 1965 )

George Shillington writes that the author of Acts most likely created the speeches and accordingly they bear his literary and theological marks.

* 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author ( b. 1947 )

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.

* 1912 – George Mikes, Hungarian-born British author ( d. 1987 )

In the end, the real George Eliot stepped forward: Marian Evans Lewes admitted she was the author.

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

* 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.

* 1876 – George Sand, French author ( b. 1804 )

* 1997 – George Turner, Australian author ( b. 1916 )

* 1900 – George Antheil, American composer, pianist, and author d. 1959 )

* 1922 – George McGovern, American politician, historian, and author

* 1923 – George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist, conductor, teacher, and author

* 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author ( d. 2008 )

The author George Johnson has written a biography of Gell-Mann, which is titled Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann, and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics, which Dr. Gell-Mann has criticized as inaccurate.

* 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.

* 1916 – George Turner, Australian author ( d. 1997 )

In another passage 23 chapters later, the author ( probably George Puttenham ) speaks of aristocratic writers who, if their writings were made public, would appear to be excellent.

* 1941 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family ( d. 1971 )