Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun
Ada Calhoun on a St. Marks Place rooftop, 2015
Born	Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl (1976-03-17) March 17, 1976 (age 48) New York City, New York
Occupation	Non-fiction writer, journalist, novelist
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 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; Also a Poet, a memoir about her father and the poet Frank O’Hara, and the forthcoming Crush: A Novel. 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]