One of the OPC’s more enduring contributions was its involvement in the founding of The Paris Review in 1953. Destined to become one of the leading literary quarterlies in the Western world over the next half-century, few of the writers who appeared in the Review’s pages—a list that included the likes of Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet—might have guessed that two of its three founding editors, writers George Plimpton and Peter Matthiessen, were on the OPC payroll. It would be little exaggeration to say that, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the principal sources of funding
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