Calvin (Marshall) Trillin - Books

Writer, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. A Yale graduate, he was a New Yorker staff writer (1963) and columnist for the Nation and national syndication (1978). His essays reported sympathetically on ordinary American life and passionately on food, and were collected in such volumes as American Fried (1974).

Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist.

Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and became a member of Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957;

He has also written for The Nation magazine, contributing a column titled “Uncivil Liberties” from 1978 to 1985 and comic verse, mostly on political topics, since 1990. The most autobiographical of his works are Messages from My Father, Family Man, and an essay in the March 27, 2006 New Yorker, “Alice, Off the Page.” His 2001 novel Tepper Isn’t Going Out, about a man who enjoys parking in New York City, was unusual among novels for exploring the subject of parking.

Trillin lives in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.

Books

(Nonfiction unless otherwise noted)

An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia (1964) Barnett Frummer is an Unbloomed Flower (short stories, 1969), U.S. Journal (1971) American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater (1974) Runestruck (novel, 1977) Alice, Let’s Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater (1978) Floater (novel, 1980) Uncivil Liberties (1982) Third Helpings (1983) Killings (1984) With All Disrespect (1985) If You Can’t Say Something Nice (1987) Travels with Alice (1989) Enough’s Enough (and Other Rules of Life) (1990) American Stories (1991) Remembering Denny (1993) Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist (comic verse with commentary, 1994) Too Soon to Tell (1995) Family Man (1998) Tepper Isn’t Going Out (novel, 2001) Feeding a Yen (2003) Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (comic verse with commentary, 2004) A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme (comic verse with commentary, 2006)