Calvin Trillin

Mr. Calvin Trillin has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1963, when the magazine published "An Education in Georgia," his account of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. More than three hundred of Trillin's pieces have appeared in The New Yorker. His work includes comic casuals and a wide variety of nonfiction, but his principal interest has been reporting on America. Between 1967 and 1982, he wrote a series of pieces from various locations within the United States called "U.S. Journal." After serving in the Army, Trillin joined Time, spending one year in their Atlanta bureau, covering the civil-rights struggle. From 1978-1995, Trillin wrote a humor column for The Nation, which become syndicated in 1985. He is a member of the New York Writers Hall of Fame and Thurber Prize.