A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin is also The Nation’s deadline poet. His bestsellers range from the memoir About Alice to Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme. He lives in Greenwich Village, which he describes as “a neighborhood where people from the suburbs come on weekends to test their car alarms.”
Praise for Calvin Trillin
“A classic American humorist.”—The New Republic
“I spent my college years deep into the great humorists: Benchley,
Perelman, Woody Allen. Calvin Trillin is up there with any of
them.”—David Brooks, The Daily Beast
“Trillin may be the funniest columnist in America—bemused, amused,
wry and right on the mark.”—People
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