Poetic Obituaries: [Thomas Guinzburg's] crowd there,

a now famous band of literary expatriates, included his Yale roommate, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, William Styron and Donald Hall.

In 1953 he teamed up with Mr. Plimpton, Mr. Matthiessen and others as founders of The Paris Review, a journal that propelled the early careers of writers as diverse as Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Jack Kerouac, Mona Simpson and T. Coraghessan Boyle.

from The New York Times: Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review Co-Founder, Dies at 84

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