Trillin, Calvin

Trillin, Calvin (1935–), Kansas City‐born journalist, after graduation from Yale was a reporter for Time and then a staff writer for The New Yorker. His nonfictional works include An Education in Georgia (1964), about the first blacks to be admitted to a public university in Georgia; U.S. Journal (1971), vignettes of life in varied parts of the nation; American Fried (1974), on good food in the U.S.; Alice, Let's Eat (1978) and Third Helpings (1983), further adventures of a happy eater; and Uncivil Liberties (1982), witty essays, a form continued in With All Disrespect (1985), If You Can't Say Something Nice (1987), and Too Soon to Tell (1995). Killings (1984) deals with sudden deaths, mainly murders. Travels with Alice (1989) tells of his wide‐ranging trips, often abroad, with his wife. Remembering Denny (1993) probes the suicide of a classmate at Yale from whom great things were expected. Messages from My Father (1996) is a memoir. Family Man (1998) collects observational humor on the art of parenting. His fiction includes Barnett Frummer Is an Unbloomed Flower (1969), humorous stories; Runestruck (1977), a funny tale of a New England town thought to be a Viking landing place; Floater (1980), a comic treatment of work on a weekly news magazine; and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2002), a New York comedy about a man who insists on reading the newspaper in his parked car.