Plimpton memoirs in the works

George Plimpton, the author, actor and literary patron whose countless famous friends have included Ernest Hemingway, Robert Kennedy and Warren Beatty, has agreed to write his memoirs.

The book, currently untitled, will be published in 2006 by Little, Brown & Co., which announced the deal Monday.

Plimpton, 76, is best known for “Paper Lion,” “Out of My League” and other self-effacing accounts of his attempts at professional sports. But he also has a substantial literary and political background. As co-founder of the Paris Review, a leading literary publication, Plimpton published early work by such writers as Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac, and he befriended Hemingway.