also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books—American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings—were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. The most autobiographical of his works are Messages from My Father, Family Man, and an essay in the March 27, 2006, New Yorker, "Alice, Off the Page", discussing his late wife. A slightly expanded version of the latter essay, entitled About Alice, was published as a book on December 26, 2006. In Messages from My Father, Trillin recounts how his father always expected his son to be a Jew, but had primarily "raised me to be an American". Trillin has also written a collection of short stories – Barnett Frummer Is an Unbloomed Flower (1969) – and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). This last novel is about a man who enjoys parking in New York City for its own sake and is unusual among novels for exploring the subject of parking. In 2008, Trillin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The same year, The Library of America selected Trillin's essay "Stranger with a Camera" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime. In 2012, Trillin was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, published by Random House. In 2013, he was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame. Personal life In 1965, Trillin married the educator and writer Alice Stewart Trillin, with whom he had two daughters. Alice died in 2001. He also has four grandchildren. Trillin lives in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Bibliography References External links Column archive at The Nation "Calvin Trillin Is Going Out — to Eat (Again)", Dave Weich, Powells.com Strolling and Snacking with Calvin Trillin The New York Times "The Salon Interview: Calvin Trillin" "Chillin’ with Calvin Trillin" Interview by Pamela Ryckman, The Brooklyn Rail (June 2005) Politics In Verse With Calvin Trillin Interview. 1935 births Living people Writers from Kansas City, Missouri 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Jewish American novelists American columnists American food writers American humorists American male journalists American male novelists American travel writers Yale University alumni The Nation (U.S. magazine) people The New Yorker people People from Greenwich Village 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New