Creator Bio
Calvin Trillin
b. 1935
Calvin Trillin grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. As a staff writer at The New Yorker and a columnist for Time magazine and The Nation, he has written humorous features on American family life, food, and travel. He has also published novels, short stories, and travel books. In 1980, Trillin was nominated for the National Book Award.
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Messages from My Father
I remember the moment when it dawned on me that my father did not impress the world at large as a powerful figure. We were at a camera store on the Plaza—a faux-Andalusian shopping district that…