Ada Calhoun

Ada Calhoun is the author of the memoir Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, named one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 by W magazine; and St. Marks Is Dead, a non-fiction book about the history of Manhattan’s St Mark’s Place. She has collaborated on several New York Times bestsellers, and written for the New York Times, New York, and The New Republic. Reaching middle age successful but miserable, author Ada Calhoun set out to find out why other Generation X women were also feeling miserable. In Why We Can’t Sleep (Grove Press) she reports that the generation raised to “have it all,” is exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. She opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss―and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is empowering. Publishers Weekly called it “[A] Bracing, empowering study… Women of every generation will find much to relate to in this humorous yet pragmatic account.”