Ada Calhoun
Writer, critic and memoirist
Ada Calhoun is an American writer who has published nonfiction, a memoir and a novel. Her book Why We Can’t Sleep looks at Generation X women.
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American Born 1976 in 8th Street and St. Mark's Place, United States
About Ada Calhoun
Ada Calhoun is an American writer, born in 1976. She has worked as a critic, a freelance essayist and reporter, and a co-author and ghostwriter. She has often contributed to The New York Times Book Review, and she also teaches journalism and creative writing. Her books include St. Marks Is Dead, a history of St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, and Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, a collection of essays on marriage. Why We Can’t Sleep, which a source describes as a New York Times bestseller, is about Generation X women and their struggles. Calhoun has also written the memoir Also a Poet, about her father and the poet Frank O’Hara, and the novel Crush.