The Living George Plimpton: Taking a Sporting Stance between Hemingway and Mailer

Authors

participatory journalism, creative nonfiction, sports writing, Ernest Hemingway, lived experience , literary friendship

An examination of the connections among Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, and George Plimpton.

Erik Nakjavani, University of Pittsburgh

Erik Nakjavani is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has specialized in Hemingway scholarship, his life-long interdisciplinary interest in psychoanalysis, philosophy, literary theory, and the arts has resulted in many wide-ranging publications. His latest essays include “Homage to Guillevic: The Poet of Atavistic Nostalgia for the Primeval” (2010), “Alchemy, Memory, and Archetypes: Reading Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro as an African Fairy Tale" (2010), and “Hemingway’s African Book of Revelations: Dawning of a “New Religion” in Under Kilimanjaro” (2011), and “Esmail Khoi: The Poet as Observer and Creative Explorer” (2012).