{"value"=>"<p>Items that provide insight into Plimpton's personal history, including his education, military service, and extended family, all comprise the Biographical Files of Series VII. This Series is arranged into five Subseries, which includes Education; Military; Plimpton Family; Scrapbooks; and <span class=\"title\">George Being George</span>.</p> <p>The Education Subseries contains materials from Plimpton's attendance at St. Bernard's School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and University of Cambridge. The files include class notes, notebooks, some school assignments, diplomas, and a few assorted photographs.</p> <p>The Military files hold administrative documents, itineraries, service records, and Plimpton's discharge documents, while the Plimpton Family files comprise various research materials regarding Plimpton and Ames genealogy and family history.</p> <p>There are five scrapbooks present in Subseries VII.D., including two from Plimpton's youth, two that collect clippings about his career accomplishments, and one commemorating his 75th birthday. Plimpton assembled the youth scrapbooks between 1936 and 1944. They hold such items as drawings, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and some original writing by Plimpton. The 75th birthday scrapbook is mostly an assemblage of writings and dedications to Plimpton by his friends and family.</p> <p>The <span class=\"title\">George Being George</span> files are from a posthumous oral history biography that was researched and compiled by Nelson W. Aldrich. The Subseries contains Agreements and Contracts; Interviews; Research; Drafts; Manuscripts; Galleys, a Master Set, and Proofs; Photographs; and Publicity materials. One of the most comprehensive elements of this Subseries is the Interview files, which includes transcripts of interviews with many well-known literary figures and family members recounting memorable anecdotes about Plimpton. Some noteworthy individuals included in the Interview files are Harold Bloom, Ken Burns, Robert Gottlieb, Hugh Heffner, Alex Karras, Fran Lebowitz, Neil Leifer, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, Philip Roth, James Salter, Bob Silvers, William Styron, Gore Vidal, and Tom Wolfe. Audio recordings of many of the interviews conducted for this book are also held in Series X.</p>"}