Calvin Trillin
Author of About Alice
About the Author
Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for show more The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Calvin Trillin
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The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributor — 244 copies
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Contributor — 210 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 116 copies
Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City (Adrenaline Classics) (2003) — Contributor — 22 copies
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- Canonical name
- Trillin, Calvin
- Legal name
- Trillin, Calvin Marshall
- Other names
- Trillin, Buddy
- Birthdate
- 1935-12-05
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Places of residence
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Yale University (B.A.|1957)
- Occupations
- actor
journalist
humorist
food writer
novelist
poet - Relationships
- Trillin, Alice (wife)
- Organizations
- Time
The New Yorker
The Nation
United States Army - Awards and honors
- Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012)
- Short biography
- A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation's deadline poet. He lives in Greenwich Village, which he describes as "a neighborhood where people from the suburbs come on weekends to test their car alarms."
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- Works
- 39
- Also by
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- Members
- 6,181
- Popularity
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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