Calvin Trillin About Alice
The sun-drenched photo of Calvin Trillin’s clear-eyed wife on the frontispiece of this book makes it clear that About Alice is a love story. As a staff writer for The New Yorker, Trillin introduced readers to his wife, Alice, through articles and books that gave glimpses into her unique sensibility, beauty, and wit. After her death in 2001, Trillin wrote a piece for The New Yorker about her life that moved readers to laughter and tears. Trillin expanded the article and it grew into About Alice, which is not an end-of-life story, but a celebration of a life well lived.