1. Ada Calhoun was born on Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl; March 17,1976 and is an American writer.
13 Facts About Ada Calhoun
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Ada Calhoun 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.
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Ada Calhoun has been a critic, frequently contributing to The New York Times Book Review; a co-author and ghostwriter the New York Times having reported that she collaborated on the 2023 Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me; and a freelance essayist and reporter.
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Ada Calhoun is the only child of art critic Peter Schjeldahl and actress Brooke Alderson.
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Ada Calhoun changed her name in 1998 to avoid comparison to her father.
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Ada Calhoun has written personal essays, including three for The New York Times's "Modern Love" column, and four for The New York Times Magazine's "Lives" column.
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Ada Calhoun wrote an op-ed that fall that explained her anti-nostalgic feelings about cities and change:.
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Ada Calhoun interviewed more than 200 women across America about their experiences and was fascinated how Gen-X women responded and coped with these struggles physically and mentally, inspiring her to understand why with research from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Harvard's Equality of Opportunity Project.
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When things became difficult while she was writing the book, Ada Calhoun stuck to her journalistic instincts and dove deeper.
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Ada Calhoun's forthcoming first novel, Crush: A Novel, is set for release from Viking on February 25,2025.
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Ada Calhoun won the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal in US History, 2015 USC-Annenberg National Health Journalism Fellowship, 2014 Kiplinger fellowship, 2013 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award, and 2014 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship; one of her Patterson stories won the 2015 Croly Award.
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In 2004, Ada Calhoun married Neal Medlyn, whom she met when she was sent to interview him for an Austin Chronicle profile.
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Ada Calhoun majored in Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin, where for her senior thesis she translated part of the Sanskrit Atharvaveda.