Also a poet : Frank O'Hara, my father, and me

Frank O'Hara, who died tragically at age 40 in 1966, was one of the most influential poets of the second half of the 20th Century, a star of the New York School. Ada Calhoun mixes her trenchant personal memoir with a biography of the famed poet, finishing the work her father, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl, began decades ago. Schjeldahl left Calhoun cassette tapes of his interviews with all of O'Hara's artistic friends, including the artists Larry Rivers, O'Hara's lover, and Jane Freilicher, O'Hara's best friend.