Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction. Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and became a member of Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957; he later served as a trustee of the university. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. He wrote the magazine's "U.S. Journal" series from 1967 to 1982, covering local events both serious and quirky throughout the United States.
Series
Books
Feeding a Yen
Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco
2003
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Forty Years of Funny Stuff
2011
Too Soon To Tell
1995
Deciding the Next Decider
The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
2008
Enough's Enough
1990
Family Man
1998
American Fried
Adventures of a Happy Eater
1975
Tales from the Tummy Trilogy
2000
Uncivil Liberties
1982
About Alice
2006
Deadline Poet
My Life as a Doggerlist
1994
Travels with Alice
1999
Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces
2011
An Education in Georgia
Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia
1964
American Stories
1991
Obliviously On He Sails
The Bush Administration in Rhyme
2004
Floater
1980
Calvin Trillin, Piece by Piece
1996
The Lede
Dispatches from a Life in the Press
2024
Killings
1985
Trillin on Texas
2011
If You Can't Say Something Nice
1987
No Fair! No Fair!
And Other Jolly Poems of Childhood
2016
Jackson, 1964
And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
2016
Remembering Denny
1993
Tepper Isn't Going Out
2001
Third Helpings
1983
Dogfight
The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
2012
The Tummy Trilogy
American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings
1994
A Heckuva Job
More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
2006
Alice, Let's Eat
Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
1978
Messages from My Father
1996
