Famous as America's "deadline poet," Calvin Trillin has been a gadfly in verse for The Nation since 1990, delighting readers with his rhyming observations on the news of the day. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and columnist for Time magazine, Trillin has traveled America's highways and byways to keep his finger on the nation's pulse. A native of Kansas City, he attended Yale University, served as chairman of the Yale Daily News, and became a member of Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957. His seventeen books and two critically acclaimed one-man shows at the American Place Theatre have brought him renown as a most gifted and irreverent wit. He was a trustee of Yale University and is currently a trustee of the New York Public Library. He is married, has two daughters, and lives in Greenwich Village.
Calvin Trillin will be interviewed by Alan Acosta, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist who is Associate Vice President and Director of University Communications at Stanford.