Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl (1976-03-17) March 17, 1976 (age 48) New York City, New York
Occupation
Non-fiction writer, journalist
Alma mater
Stuyvesant High School University of Texas at Austin
Period
1998–present
Notable works
St. Marks Is Dead (2015), Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give (2017), Why We Can't Sleep (2020), Also a Poet (2022)
Ada Calhoun (born Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl; March 17, 1976) is an American nonfiction writer. She is the author of St. Marks Is Dead, a history of St. Mark's Place in East Village, Manhattan, New York; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, a book of essays about marriage; Why We Can't Sleep, a book about Generation X women and their struggles, and Also a Poet, a memoir about her father and the poet Frank O’Hara. She has also been a critic, frequently contributing to The New York Times Book Review;[1] a co-author and ghostwriter,[2] the New York Times having reported that she collaborated on the 2023 Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me;[3] and a freelance essayist and reporter. A Village Voice profile in 2015 said: "Her CV can seem as though it were cobbled together from the résumés of three ambitious journalists."[4]
^"Articles by Ada Calhoun". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
^Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible listing. Simon & Schuster. 11 September 2012. ISBN 9781451643879. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
^"The Many People Behind 'The Woman in Me'". The New York Times. 31 October 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
^"Has Ada Calhoun Just Become the Most Important New Voice on Old New York?". The Village Voice. 27 October 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
AdaCalhoun (born AdaCalhoun Schjeldahl; March 17, 1976) is an American nonfiction writer. She is the author of St. Marks Is Dead, a history of St. Mark's...
Women As I Knew Them. In a review in the New York Times Book Review, AdaCalhoun wrote that "Langella's book celebrated sluttiness as a worthy—even noble—way...
Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me is a 2022 memoir by AdaCalhoun. It explores Calhoun's relationship with her father, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl...
Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2020. AdaCalhoun: Chess-Boxing Hits It Big, Time, 13 July 2008 "UCOLOURS. (2021). Supporting...
Generation X, and messy, creative female friendships that last a lifetime.”―AdaCalhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead and Why We Can’t Sleep “For me, the Lunachicks...
until his death. Together, they had one child, AdaCalhoun Schjeldahl, who writes under the name AdaCalhoun. In 2019, Schjeldahl was diagnosed with lung...
reviews both positive and negative. In The New York Times Book Review, AdaCalhoun noted Janowitz's deadpan, almost careless way of looking at her own life...
richly expressed response to the AIDS plague is to diminish its powers." AdaCalhoun wrote of the 2004 revival in The New York Magazine: "...the show succeeds...
had a son. The marriage ended in divorce. In 2004, he married author AdaCalhoun, with whom he also has a son, they split in 2022. "Jerry Medlin". MyHeritage...
Events". Archived from the original on 2009-03-06. Retrieved 2009-03-02. AdaCalhoun (January 1, 2006). "Seven Characters Not in Search of a Director". The...
School and the Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield Historical Society. AdaCalhoun, St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street (W. W...
Please Everything Burst, I Can Only Come So Far, and My Price Point. AdaCalhoun, in her New York Times Theater Review of Albo's I Can Only Come So Far...
BIGGS talks about Woody Allen, Eugene Levy & getting fired". Spotify. "ADACALHOUN is redefining journalism, one story at a time". Spotify. "LARRY KRAMER...
grant funding to help refurbish the auditorium in which it performs. AdaCalhoun (2005-06-05). "Don't Mess with Shakespeare". The New York Times. Retrieved...
particularly his sex with other men. In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, AdaCalhoun wrote "How does Bret, the author of numerous celebrity biographies, know...
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