Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He is Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center, and a former President of PEN American Center. Solomon's books include Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012), which tells the stories of families raising exceptional children who not only learn to deal with their challenges, but also find profound meaning in doing so; a memoir, memoir, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001), which won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction; and Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World (2016), a collection of Solomon's international reporting since 1991. From 1993 to 2001, Solomon was a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine; he has also written for The New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, ArtForum, and many other periodicals. Solomon lives with his husband, John Habich Solomon, and their son George Solomon, in New York and London and is a dual national. He also has a daughter with a close college friend. Habich Solomon is the biological father of two children with lesbian friends in Minneapolis; those children are also part of the family.