Calvin Trillin

After graduating from Yale University in 1957 and serving in the U.S. Army, Calvin Trillin became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1963. He remarked in an interview that at the magazine’s office, “There were two or three Polish cleaning women who came in late at night, and I was always afraid that they would find my early drafts and read them to each other, howling with laughter, slapping their brooms against the desks like hockey players do: Ha! He calls himself a writer!”