14 Facts About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Marshall Trillin was born on December 5,1935 and is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.

Calvin Trillin is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Calvin Trillin was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1935 to Edythe and Abe Trillin.

Calvin Trillin wrote the magazine's "US Journal" series from 1967 to 1982, covering local events both serious and quirky throughout the United States.

Calvin Trillin's reporting for the magazine on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia.

From 1975 to 1987, Calvin Trillin contributed articles to Moment, an independent magazine which focuses on the life of the American Jewish community.

Calvin Trillin began in 1978 with a column called "Variations", which was eventually renamed "Uncivil Liberties"; it ran through 1985.

Calvin Trillin has written several autobiographical books and magazine articles, including Messages from My Father, Family Man, and an essay in the March 27,2006 issue of The New Yorker, "Alice, Off the Page", discussing his late wife.

Calvin Trillin has written a collection of short stories, Barnett Frummer is an Unbloomed Flower, and three comic novels, Runestruck, Floater, and Tepper Isn't Going Out.

In 2008, Calvin Trillin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 1965, Calvin Trillin married the educator and writer Alice Stewart Calvin Trillin, with whom he had two daughters.

Calvin Trillin was a close friend of Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne.

Calvin Trillin met Dunne when the two worked at Time in the 1960s.

In September 2022, Calvin Trillin was one of the speakers at Didion's memorial service in New York City.