Robert Plunket Biography
Robert Plunkett is best remembered as the timid gay guy who picks up Griffin Dunne's character in Martin Scorsese's film After Hours (1985) Plunket was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945, and raised in Havana and Mexico City. After an unsuccessful stint as an actor in New York, he moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he became Mr. Chatterbox, the gossip columnist for Sarasota Magazine.
He is now retired and has “found peace and contentment at a lovely trailer park in Florida.” New Directions publishes his novels Love Junkie and My Search for Warren Harding, described by Danzy Senna in the foreword as “one of the best, and most invigorating books I’d read in years, and certainly the funniest.”
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