Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon (b. 1963) is an American writer on politics, culture, and health who lives in New York and London. He has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, as well as for other publications, on topics as diverse as Soviet artists, dwarfism, Libyan politics, deaf culture, contemporary art, and Mongolian travel. He is the author of several books, including The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, for which he won a Lambda Literary Award[1] and a National Book Award in 2001[2] and was a finalist for a 2002 Pulitzer Prize.[3]

He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities[4] and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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[edit] Education

Solomon graduated from Yale University magna cum laude in 1985.[5] He studied English at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, earning a starred first-class degree.

[edit] Family

A dual citizen of the United States and United Kingdom, Solomon married John Habich on June 30, 2007, in an official civil partnership ceremony at Althorp, the estate of the late Princess Diana and the official residence of Earl Spencer, located in Northampton, England. Solomon's father, Howard, is chairman of Forest Laboratories.[6]

[edit] Publications

Solomon was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 1993-2001.

He is known for his chronicling of his own experience with clinical depression in The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression for which he won the Mind charity's Book of the Year[7]. Solomon has been active on with several organizations associated with the destigmatization of depression including the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign and the Depression Center of the University of Michigan.

He is writing a book, to be published in 2008, called A Dozen Kinds of Love: Raising Traumatic Children, which deals with how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities.

He has also written a loosely autobiographical novel which deals with a gay man losing his mother to cancer. Kirkus Reviews called the novel "An elegant and moving examination of a difficult subject." [8]

[edit] Non-Fiction

[edit] Fiction

  • Solomon, Andrew (1994). A Stone Boat. Faber & Faber, New York. ISBN 0571172407. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lambda Literary Awards 2007 (2007-03-21). Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
  2. ^ National Book Foundation National Book Awards - 2001
  3. ^ The Pulitzer Prize Nominated Finalists - 2002
  4. ^ New York Institute for the Humanities. Fellows: Andrew Solomon
  5. ^ The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression About the Author
  6. ^ Pfanner, Eric Andrew Solomon and John Habich, The New York Times, July 8, 2007. Accessed October 18, 2007.
  7. ^ Mind Book of the Year 2002
  8. ^ Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 1994