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Calvin Trillin

Auteur van About Alice

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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

About Alice (2006) 888 exemplaren
Tepper Isn't Going Out: A Novel (2001) 500 exemplaren
The Tummy Trilogy (1994) 418 exemplaren
Travels with Alice (1989) 390 exemplaren
Remembering Denny (1993) 278 exemplaren
Messages From My Father: A Memoir (1996) 269 exemplaren
Family Man (1998) 249 exemplaren
Killings (1984) 206 exemplaren
Too Soon to Tell (1995) 156 exemplaren
American Stories (1991) 152 exemplaren
Uncivil liberties (1982) 140 exemplaren
If You Can't Say Something Nice (1987) 139 exemplaren
Third Helpings (1983) 132 exemplaren
Floater (1980) 71 exemplaren
Runestruck (1977) 32 exemplaren
U.S. Journal (1971) 12 exemplaren
Calvin Trillin, Piece by Piece (1996) 11 exemplaren
The Red and the White 7 exemplaren

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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
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA
Opleiding
Yale University (B.A.|1957)
Beroepen
actor
journalist
humorist
food writer
novelist
poet
Relaties
Trillin, Alice (wife)
Organisaties
Time
The New Yorker
The Nation
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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For years I’ve enjoyed Calvin Trillin’s columns, but I’ve only ever read one of his books, a moving tribute to his wife Alice, “About Alice,” a tiny (76 pages) book that will challenge anyone’s tear ducts. And this from a man I’ve never considered particularly emotional. The book is just that moving. “The Lede” is a compilation of Trillin’s columns, mostly from his home publication The New Yorker. They are often funny, always interesting, and usually educational. Calvin Trillin is one of those individuals who qualifies as a bona fide national treasure.… (meer)
 
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FormerEnglishTeacher | Mar 8, 2024 |
Smartly and deftly written, I rather enjoyed it.
 
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mimo | 24 andere besprekingen | Dec 18, 2023 |
I really wanted to like this a lot more. It is occasionally clever, with a few chuckles. But most of it was really just recounting the events of the 2012 presidential campaign with the gimmick that it's in rhyme most of the time. Nothing to do with portraying the participants as dogs, which was a really lost opportunity in selecting breeds and personality traits. Some minor charm, but ultimately disappointing.
 
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sheldonnylander | 6 andere besprekingen | Apr 5, 2023 |
When it comes to movies, there's a certain kind of movie that my partner and I say is really great on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Usually not an Oscar winner, often not even widely known but one that brings a smile to your face and makes you glad you spent the time to relax and enjoy it.

This book is the literary equivalent. "Comfortable" to read and brought a smile to my face.
 
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toddtyrtle | 24 andere besprekingen | Dec 28, 2022 |

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