Calvin Trillin
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Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for toon meer The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Calvin Trillin
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America (2016) 108 exemplaren
An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia (1964) 27 exemplaren
The Red and the White 7 exemplaren
Vtg Uncivil Liberties - Calvin Trillin 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Trillin, Calvin
- Officiële naam
- Trillin, Calvin Marshall
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Trillin, Buddy
- Geboortedatum
- 1935-12-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Yale University (B.A.|1957)
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- actor
journalist
humorist
food writer
novelist
poet - Relaties
- Trillin, Alice (wife)
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- Time
The New Yorker
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United States Army - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012)
- Korte biografie
- A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation's deadline poet. He lives in Greenwich Village, which he describes as "a neighborhood where people from the suburbs come on weekends to test their car alarms."
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