Andrew Solomon

ANDREW SOLOMON {andrewsolomon.com} is a writer on politics, culture and psychology. His newest book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012), won the National Book Critics Circle award. His previous book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001), won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Solomon is an activist and philanthropist in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London.

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“An Exquisite and Profound Love”: An Interview with Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon has written about mental health, politics, and culture for the New York Times and the New Yorker and is the author of four books. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. In his most recent book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, Solomon explores what it means to be a parent in the context of adversity. Dialogue board member Gregory A. Prince interviewed Solomon on March 28, 2011, in New York City.