Lionel Trilling passed away on this day in 1975, at the age of seventy. He had lived through a lot: World War I, the Lost Generation, women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War II, the Beat Generation, Hippies, and Disco. It’s no wonder his politics, a topic on which he wrote, shifted and swayed and remain up for discussion.
Trilling taught Columbia’s Colloquium on Important Books, where among his students were Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr.
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 
Is he the professor from ‘Kill Your Darlings’?
Not according to IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast