Editing Calvin Trillin (section)

== Career ==
After serving in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]], Trillin worked as a reporter for ''[[Time magazine|Time]]'' magazine, then joined the staff of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' in 1963.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/calvin-trillin |title=Contributors – Calvin Trillin |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |issn=0028-792X| access-date=March 10, 2017}}</ref> He wrote the magazine's "U.S. Journal" series from 1967 to 1982, covering local events both serious and quirky throughout the United States. His reporting for the magazine on the [[racial integration]] of the [[University of Georgia]] was published in his first book, ''An Education in Georgia'' (1964).
[[File:Calvin Trillin by Bernard Gotfryd edit.jpg|thumb|left|Trillin, photographed at home by [[Bernard Gotfryd]] in 1987]]
From 1975 to 1987, Trillin contributed articles to ''[[Moment (magazine)|Moment]]'',<ref>{{cite archive|first= Calvin|last= Trillin|item= Jacob Schiff and My Uncle Ben Daynovsky|type= Textual record|date= May 1975|pages= 41-43|Series= Moment Magazine|collection= Moment Magazine Archives|institution= Opinion Archives|location= Digital Archives}}</ref> an independent magazine which focuses on the life of the American Jewish community.

Trillin also writes for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]''. He began in 1978 with a column called "Variations", which was eventually renamed "Uncivil Liberties"; it ran through 1985. The same name was used for the column when it was syndicated weekly in newspapers, from 1986 to 1995, and essentially the same column ran (without a name) in ''Time'' from 1996 to 2001. His humor columns for ''The Nation'' during the 1980s and 1990s often made fun of then-editor [[Victor Navasky]], whom he jokingly referred to as ''the wily and parsimonious'' Navasky.  (He once wrote that the magazine paid "in the high two figures.") Since July 1990, Trillin has written humorous poems about current events as part of his weekly "Deadline Poet" column in ''The Nation''.

Family, travel and food are major themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books on food — ''American Fried'' (1974), ''Alice, Let's Eat'' (1978) and ''Third Helpings'' (1983) —  were collected in the 1994 compendium ''The Tummy Trilogy.''  Trillin has also written several autobiographical books and magazine articles, including ''Messages from My Father'' (1996), ''Family Man'' (1998), and an essay in the March 27, 2006 issue of ''The New Yorker'', "Alice, Off the Page", discussing his late wife. In December 2006, a slightly expanded version of the essay was published as a book titled ''About Alice''. In ''Messages from My Father'', Trillin recounts how his father always expected his son to be a [[Jew]], but had primarily "raised me to be an American".<ref>Trillin, Calvin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rEuYqL3zRQcC&q=%22calvin+trillin%22+jewish ''Messages from My Father''], p. 101. [[Macmillan Publishers]], 1997. {{ISBN|0-374-52508-0}}. Accessed August 31, 2011. ""My father took it for granted that I would always be Jewish, whatever the background of the person I married. On the other hand, he didn't exactly raise me to be a Jew; he raised me to be an American."</ref>

Trillin has also written a collection of short stories, ''Barnett Frummer is an Unbloomed Flower'' (1969), and three comic novels, ''Runestruck'' (1977), ''Floater'' (1980), and ''Tepper Isn't Going Out'' (2002). The latter novel is about a man who enjoys parking in New York City for its own sake and is unusual among novels for exploring the subject of [[parking]].

In 2008, Trillin was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-17 |title=Robert Caro, Calvin Trillin Voted Into Arts Academy |url=https://observer.com/2008/04/robert-caro-calvin-trillin-voted-into-arts-academy/ |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=Observer |language=en-US}}</ref> The same year, [[The Library of America]] selected Trillin's essay "Stranger with a Camera" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. In 2012, Trillin was awarded the [[Thurber Prize for American Humor]] for ''Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff'', published by Random House.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bosman |first=Julie |date=2012-10-02 |title=Calvin Trillin Wins Thurber Prize for American Humor |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/calvin-trillin-wins-thurber-prize-for-american-humor/ |access-date=2022-08-31 |website=ArtsBeat |language=en}}</ref> In 2013, he was inducted into the [[New York Writers Hall of Fame]].