Trillin, Calvin

The writer and journalist Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin (1935–) has chronicled American culture through verse, humorous nonfiction, political and sports essays, fiction, poetry, and memoir for nearly fifty years.

Whether writing about food, politics, sports, social commentary, or his beloved wife, Alice—his ultimate reader—Trillin’s hallmark is his ability to humorously lambast American character and culture in a way that appreciates its eccentricities, which has won him a well-deserved place in the pantheon of American social life commentary.