Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012) and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008).
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- Kansas City
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- Yale UniversitySouthwest Early College CampusSouthwest High School
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1935
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