Guest Lecture: Ada Calhoun

A guest lecture presented by Ada Calhoun in The Birenbaum. For this event, Calhoun will be directing Oberlin students in an adaptation of the audiobook version of Also A Poet, accompanied by archival tapes of interviews compiled by her father, the late art critic Peter Schjeldahl, during his ill-fated quest to produce a biography of Frank O'Hara. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, moderated by David Gutherz, a VAP in Writing and Communication.

About Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun is the celebrated author of Why We Can't Sleep and Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me, which was named one of the best books of 2022 by the New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction. A prolific journalist, Calhoun has written for Time, National Geographic Traveler, Billboard, Cosmopolitan, and the New Yorker, among many others. Her national news reporting has won several awards, including a USC-Annenberg National Health Journalism Fellowship, a Kiplinger fellowship, a CCF Media Award, and an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship. She is also an A‑list ghostwriter, having anonymously collaborated on twenty-five major nonfiction books in the past dozen years, including several New York Times bestsellers.