Calvin Trillin
Auteur de About Alice
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Calvin Trillin
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America (2016) 108 exemplaires
An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia (1964) 27 exemplaires
The Red and the White 7 exemplaires
Vtg Uncivil Liberties - Calvin Trillin 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contributeur — 706 exemplaires
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributeur — 245 exemplaires
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contributeur — 217 exemplaires
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Contributeur — 210 exemplaires
Great British Cooking: Wellkept Secret, A (1981) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 155 exemplaires
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributeur — 116 exemplaires
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contributeur — 91 exemplaires
Howe and Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History (1947) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 51 exemplaires
Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City (Adrenaline Classics) (2003) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Trillin, Calvin
- Nom légal
- Trillin, Calvin Marshall
- Autres noms
- Trillin, Buddy
- Date de naissance
- 1935-12-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Yale University (B.A.|1957)
- Professions
- actor
journalist
humorist
food writer
novelist
poet - Relations
- Trillin, Alice (wife)
- Organisations
- Time
The New Yorker
The Nation
United States Army - Prix et distinctions
- Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012)
- Courte biographie
- 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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- Œuvres
- 39
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- 35
- Membres
- 6,186
- Popularité
- #3,974
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 168
- ISBN
- 112
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- Favoris
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