Ada Calhoun

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''; 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. A ''Village Voice'' profile in 2015 said: "Her CV can seem as though it were cobbled together from the résumés of three ambitious journalists." Provided by Wikipedia