CALVIN TRILLIN

Contributor
TIME Magazine

Calvin Trillin, whose articles and columns have earned him renown as a classic American journalist and humorist, writes a weekly column for TIME Magazine.

Trillin also continues as a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work has appeared for the past 30 years. His new column represents a homecoming. Prior to joining The New Yorker in 1963, Trillin worked for TIME, first as a correspondent in Atlanta, then as a New York-based writer. From 1967-82, he produced a highly praised series of 3,000-word articles for The New Yorker, called U.S. Journal. Collections of Trillin's reporting for The New Yorker have been published in books that include Killings (1984) and American Stories (1991).

From 1978 through 1985, Trillin was a columnist for The Nation; since 1986, his column had been syndicated to newspapers by King Features. Those columns have been collected in five books, including the most recent, Too Soon To Tell, published last June. His bestselling, Remembering Denny, published in 1993, was hailed as an "elegiac, disturbing and altogether brilliant memoir." His next book, Messages From My Father, a memoir, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in May.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Trillin, holds a B.A. from Yale College. He and his wife, Alice Stewart Trillin, have two daughters.