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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and "Deadline Poet" for The Nation. Acclaimed for their tongue-in-cheek humor, his columns and satirical poems are collected in Uncivil Liberties, If You Can't Say Something Nice, and A Heckuva Job, to name a few, and it has been said that he is to food writing "what Chaplin was to film acting." In About Alice, Trillin writes about his wife, who died of cancer in 2001, and was a beloved presence in many of his books.