“Throughout five decades, the writer and editor, to a breathtaking degree, enacted his daydreams and fantasies and fashioned them into a glittering persona. He was ‘George Plimpton’ – editor, host, naturalist, toastmaster, celebrity escort, fireworks specialist, athlete, gossip and playboy… [Yet] underneath Plimpton’s deeply amiable exterior was a person who sometimes came across as a Man Without Qualities.”