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Calvin Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.
* He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1935.
* He graduated from Yale University in 1957.
* He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960.
* He worked as a reporter for Time magazine from 1961 to 1963.
* He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963.
* He has written more than 20 books, including "An Education in Georgia," "Alice, Let's Eat," and "U.S. Journal."
* He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
* He is married to Alice Stewart Trillin and they have two daughters.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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