Writer George Plimpton, shown sitting in his Manhattan town house on Dec.16, 1997, displaying a picture of the "world's largest elephant" he photographed in Kenya's Marsabit National Park and Reserve in 1970, died Thursday night Sept.25, 2003, at his Manhattan apartment, his longtime friend, restaurateur Elaine Kaufman, said Friday. She had no information on the cause. He was 76.(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)