Pauline (Ames) Plimpton (1901-1995)

She graduated from Smith College and was on the boards of Planned Parenthood, the Institute for World Affairs and the Public Education Association. In later life she emerged as a successful author. Among the eight books she turned out over twelve years was one about her father: "Oakes Ames, Jottings of a Harvard Botanist," (1979); one about her husband: "The Plimpton Papers, Law and Diplomacy" (1985), and another about her father-in-law, a wide-ranging literary collector: "A Collector's Recollections, George Arthur Plimpton" (1992).