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Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton
Category: Languages and Reference
Collects the work of the distinguished editor, essayist, sportswriter, and adventurer from over his thirty-five-year career, featuring profiles, essays, articles, and other classics, such as The Amazing story of Sidd Finch.
Home Run - The Story of Babe Ruth by Mike Wimmer (Illustrator); Robert Burleigh; George Plimpton (Editor)
Category: Picture Books
Like most boys, he spent his summers playing ball on a dirt lot, but George Herman Ruth, Jr. followed his dreams to become a legend. He is the Babe--Babe Ruth--and baseball is his game. Powerful oil paintings and spare, dramatic text draw readers into the mind of this larger-than-life sports hero. Repro ...Show more
Out of my League by Plimpton George
Category: Sports and Hobbies
From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. George Plimpton had the chance to answer every baseball fan's question- could Istrike out a major league star? Out of My Leaguechronicles what happened next as his inspired idea - to get o ...Show more
Paper Lion - Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton; Tom Wolfe (Introduction by); Nicholas Dawidoff (Foreword by)
Category: Sports and Hobbies
The book that made a legend-and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, now featuring an introduction by Tom Wolfe and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports jo ...Show more
Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback by Plimpton George
Category: Sport
The book that made a legend-and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, now featuring an introduction by Tom Wolfe and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports jo ...Show more
Truman Capote by George Plimpton
Category: Biography
A biography of American author Truman Capote in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent career.
Women Writers at Work: The "Paris Review" Interviews by George Plimpton
Category: Culture
This selection includes interviews with some of literature's great women: Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, Lillian Hellman and many more.
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