![]() ![]() ![]() Lindsay Lynch: Also a Poet isn’t just a biography of Frank O’Hara, but also a memoir and a story of you, your father, and the NYC literary scene you were raised in. We hope to see you on the Plaza October 14 – 16!Īda Calhoun | Photo by Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet Our own Lindsay Lynch chatted with Ada about the book and her writing process ahead of her appearance at the Southern Festival of Books on October 14 at 12pm ( view the full schedule here). When Ada set out to finish the biography of poet Frank O’Hara that her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had started forty years earlier, she came face to face with her father’s past, her own childhood, and the complexity of her family bonds. A literary obsession, a fraught father-daughter relationship, and a reckoning with the past make up Ada Calhoun’s moving and tender memoir, Also a Poet. ![]()
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