Messages From My Father

By Calvin Trillin (2006 Selection)

Reader's guide for Messages From My Father

Book cover image Since this book is a family memoir, we invited people to submit their own personal memoirs for the web site. We've saved them all.

"Grandfather's Way" by Faye Adams

"My Daddy Was a Carpenter" by Ann Milholland Webb

"My father is, and has been, ill all of my life" by RCB

"My Family Moved From Creve Coeur..." by Christopher Duggan

"My Dad was a Mechanic" by Mary Kane

"Edgar, My Dad, My Dearest, Genuine Best Friend" by E'Debo Rose

"What I Learned From My Dad" by Evelyn Buretta

"Ours Was the Largest Yard on the Street" by George Durnell

"Girl Riding Into Town on a Pony" by Michael Bouman

"Presence and Presents" by Sandra Kaye Massey

"A Wife and Five Daughters" by Peggy Wilmes King

"Raised Without A Father" by Chris Flesor

"When He Died in 2001" by Mary O'R

"Although He Was Born In Hartford" by Ann Findlay

"Last Stop, Penn Station" by Doug Schneider

 

 

Calvin Trillin portrait

American humorist, Calvin Trillin, once said, "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found." Trillin was born in Kansas City in 1935 and apparently developed such a love of leftovers that he made a career of writing light-hearted books about food and eating.

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