Editing Calvin Trillin (section)

== Early life and education ==
Calvin Trillin was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1935 to Edythe and Abe Trillin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/10/26/my-favorite-things-calvin-trillin/ |title=My Favorite Things: Calvin Trillin |date=26 October 2011 |access-date=2013-03-17}}</ref> In his book ''Messages from My Father'', he said his parents called him "Buddy".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/books/books-of-the-times-a-father-as-drum-major-for-his-son-s-america.html |title=A Father as Drum Major For His Son's America |first=Christopher |last=Lehmann-Haupt |author-link=Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 6, 1996}}</ref> Raised Jewish,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.jta.org/2016/06/26/culture/writer-calvin-trillin-dishes-about-civil-rights-judaism-and-the-art-of-reporting | title=Writer Calvin Trillin dishes about civil rights, Judaism and the art of reporting | date=26 June 2016 }}</ref> he attended public schools in Kansas City, graduated from [[Southwest High School (Kansas City, Missouri)|Southwest High School]], and went on to [[Yale University]], where he was the roommate and friend of [[Peter M. Wolf]] (for whose 2013 memoir, ''My New Orleans, Gone Away'', he wrote a humorous foreword), and where he served as chair of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'' and was a member of the Pundits and [[Scroll and Key]] before graduating in 1957;<ref>The Yale Banner, ''History of the Class of 1957''.</ref> he later served as a [[trustee|Fellow]] of the [[Yale Corporation|University]].