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A humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain and Robert Benchley, Calvin Trillin has been offering up his sly observations to magazine readers for decades, as a political "doggerelist" (The Deadline Poet) and columnist (Uncivil Liberties). He has also uncapped his pen to discuss the joys of family life and the pleasures of chasing down the perfect meal. Anna Quindlen, writing in her New York Times column in 1991, called him “a man who disembowels pomp with such a good-natured sword.”
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Fact File
| Name:
Calvin Trillin
Also Known As:
Calvin Marshall Trillin (full name)
Date of Birth:
December 5, 1935
Place of Birth:
Kansas City, Missouri
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B.A., Yale University, 1957
Awards:
Nominated for the National Book Award for Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater, 1980
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The Best Book to Read First
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Calvin Trillin
Newsday called this well-loved collection of Trillin's chronicles of his travels abroad with his wife, Alice, and their two daughters "utterly delightful...the sophisticated traveler masquerading as innocent abroad." And Publishers Weekly offered, "If he were a stand-up comedian, these essays would be called routines; whatever one calls them, they're sure to raise a smile."
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An Approachable Author
| The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley once observed, "Calvin Trillin is like an old shoe.... Whatever he may be writing about, he always makes you want to slip into it and get comfy. This may seem like a modest compliment, but it is a high one indeed. Few tricks are more difficult for the journalist to pull off than being consistently likable and engaging, making oneself and one's little world interesting and appealing to others."
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