Versatile and Funny: Calvin Trillin is acclaimed in remarkably diverse fields of writing. He has written for The New Yorker for more than 40 years, and has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America." Audiences are treated to his antic commentary on the American scene, one that has earned him the title of "a classic American humorist."

A Heartland Sensibility: Trillin’s three books on eating, which he sometimes refers to as "the tummy trilogy," concentrate primarily on American cuisine, and led Craig Claiborne of The New York Times to call him "the Walt Whitman of American eats." USA Today called his column in The Nation "simply the funniest regular column in journalism." In all of his writing Trillin has an unadorned point of view that is deeply rooted in his Midwestern upbringing.