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Award-winning journalist Ada Calhoun is the author of St. Marks Is Dead, one of the best books of 2015 (Kirkus Reviews, Boston Globe) and restructured at MacDowell; Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, an Amazon Book of the Month and one of the top ten memoirs of 2017 (W); and Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis, coming January 7, 2020 from Grove and Audible.
Portrait by Gilbert King
Ada Calhoun worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…