Calvin Trillin Biography

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NAME: Calvin Trillin
OCCUPATION: Journalist
BIRTH DATE: December 05, 1935 (Age: 77)
EDUCATION: Yale University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Kansas City, Missouri
Full Name: Calvin Marshall Trillin
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

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Humorist and columnist Calvin Trillin is best known for his food essays, which have been published in collection such as 1974’s American Fried.

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Synopsis

Humorist Calvin Trillin was born on December 5, 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Yale University. He worked for The New Yorker as a writer and for The Nation as a columnist. He’s best known for his colorful food essays, which have been published in collections such as 1974’s American Fried.

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Writer, born on December 5, 1935 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).

Best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, Trillin's essays reported sympathetically on ordinary American life and passionately on food, and were collected in such volumes as American Fried (1974).