The Thurber Prize for American Humor was awarded to Calvin Trillin, the author and New Yorker staff writer, for his book “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff†(Random House). Mr. Trillin, the author of 20 books including “About Alice†and “Obliviously on He Sails,†will release a new book in December, “Dogfight: An Occasionally Interrupted Narrative Poem About the Presidential Campaign.†Thurber House, a nonprofit literary group named after the New Yorker writer and cartoonist James Thurber, gave the annual award for an outstanding book of humor writing published in the United States in 2011. The winner also receives a $5,000 prize. Previous winners include David Sedaris, J on Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show and David Rakoff.
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