Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is a writer, journalist and lecturer whose books explore depression, identity, family and the wider world. He began his career writing about art and culture, publishing The Irony Tower, about Soviet artists during glasnost, in 1991 and a novel, A Stone Boat, in 1994. He was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 1993 to 2001 and has also written for The New Yorker.

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001), which draws on his own experience as well as interviews and research, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012) looks at families raising children who differ profoundly from their parents. Far and Away (2016) collects his international reporting.

Solomon is a professor of clinical medical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center and served as president of PEN American Center from 2015 to 2018. He lives in New York and London.