Ada Calhoun

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ada Calhoun
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1976(1976-03-17)
Age	48
Birthplace	8th Street and St. Mark's Place
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Ada Calhoun Biography

Ada Calhoun is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 17, 1976 in 8th Street and St. Mark's Place, United States. Ada Calhoun (born Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl, March 17, 1976) is an American non-fiction author. 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, and of Why We Can’t Sleep, a book about Generation X women and their struggles. She has also been a critic, serving as a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review; a co- author and ghostwriter, having collaborated on three books by Tim Gunn; 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.”

Calhoun won the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal in U.S. 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.

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give is a memoir by Calhoun about marriage. It was inspired by the success of her New York Times “Modern Love” column, “The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give,” which the paper named one of its most-read stories of 2015. The book was released on May 16, 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company.

Reviews have been mixed. The New York Times Book Review’s Curtis Sittenfeld called Calhoun “a funny, smart, compassionate narrator…taking women’s concerns seriously” but also “wished Calhoun had included fewer women’s stories but gone into those stories in greater detail.” The Wall Street Journal’s Emily Bobrow gave the book mixed reviews, finding “many of its grumbles reassuringly familiar” but calling the book “a little whiny” and stating that Calhoun is “not above cherry-picking statistics.” The book had a 3.86/5 rating on Goodreads As of March 2020.

Her book St. Marks Is Dead was published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2015. She wrote an op-ed that fall that explained her anti-nostalgic feelings about cities and change:

Ada Calhoun Net Worth

Ada Calhoun is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ada Calhoun 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Calhoun grew up on St. Marks Place in East Village, Manhattan. She is the only child of art critic Peter Schjeldahl and actress Brooke Alderson. They appear as characters in her book St. Marks Is Dead, which she dedicates to them. She has written in The New York Times Magazine about a childhood fascination with the suburbs. As a teenager, she traveled through India and met Mother Teresa. She changed her name in 1998 to avoid comparison to her father.

In 2004, Calhoun married Jerry Neal Medlin, who performs as Neal Medlyn and Champagne Jerry, whom she met when she was sent to interview him for an Austin Chronicle profile. They have one son together, Oliver. She is an advocate for libraries. She majored in Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin, where for her senior thesis she translated part of the Sanskrit Atharvaveda.

Reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, and elsewhere, were overall positive. The New York Times “Modern Love” column published the first serial excerpt on April 23, 2017 as “To Stay Married, Embrace Change.” The book was featured on Today. In the “By the Book” column of The New York Times Book Review, Tom Hanks replied to the question “What was the last book that made you laugh?” with: “Ada Calhoun’s ‘Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give.’ I mean, underlining and yellow marker bust-out laughs.”

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As a reporter, she has written about imprisoned women in Alabama, the rap star Bobby Shmurda, and the rise of DIY abortions. She has also written personal essays, including three for the New York Times “Modern Love” column, and four for The New York Times Magazine’s “Lives” column. The New York Times named her essay “The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give” its 41st most read story of 2015. In fall 2016, W.W. Norton announced that it would publish a collection of related essays in spring 2017, called Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. In October 2017, Oprah.com published her article “The New Midlife Crisis.” Chartbeat named the article the internet’s 55th-most-read story of 2017.

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