Andrew Solomon

Author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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Andrew Solomon was born in New York City on October 30, 1963. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University and a Master's degree in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has written for numerous publications including The New York Times and The New Yorker. He has written several non-fiction books including The Irony Tower, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award. He also wrote the novel A Stone Boat. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell University and special advisor on LGBT affairs to the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression… (more)

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Works by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 2,455 copies, 37 reviews

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity 1,479 copies, 41 reviews

A Stone Boat 116 copies

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change 95 copies, 1 review

Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World 45 copies

Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How Children and Their Parents… 31 copies, 1 review

New Family Values 29 copies, 2 reviews

The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost 24 copies

World Monuments: 50 Irreplaceable Sites to Discover, Explore, and Champion 17 copies

The Reckoning: Searching for Meaning with the Father of the Sandy Hook… 9 copies

Blake's "Job": A Message for Our Time 5 copies

Um crime da solidao. Reflexoes sobre o suicidio (Em Portugues do Brasil) 5 copies

Um Crime da Solidão (Portuguese Edition) 4 copies

Instead of God: Non-believer's View of Spiritual Realities 4 copies

The Art in Embassies Program : in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of… 4 copies

Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations) 3 copies

Art in Embassies Program: In Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the… 2 copies

Far & Away: Essays from the Brink of Change, Seven Continents, Twenty-Five… 2 copies

Armut Dibine Düsmeyince 2 copies

William Blake's Great Task: The Purpose of Jerusalem 2 copies

Feng Mengbo 1 copy

How the Worst Moments in Our Life Make Us Who We Are 1 copy

Weit und weg: Reisen durch sieben Kontinente 1 copy

DEPRESSION, THE SECRET WE SHARE 1 copy

Demonul amiezii. O anatomie a depresiei (Romanian Edition) 1 copy

Le Vaisseau de pierre (A.M. G.TRADUCT) (French Edition) 1 copy

Deaf Is Beautiful 1 copy

Clinical Cases: A Step-by-Step Approach 1 copy

Les enfants exceptionnels: La famille à l'épreuve de la… 1 copy

Lugares distantes : como a viagem pode mudar o mundo 1 copy

Lugares Distantes Como a viagem pode mudar o mundo 1 copy

Depression: A Secret We Share 1 copy

Departe de trunchi (Romanian Edition) 1 copy

The Chinese Masterpiece You Won't See At the Met 1 copy

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Also by Andrew Solomon

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (Introduction, some editions) 804 copies, 72 reviews

The Moth (Contributor) 277 copies, 7 reviews

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (Contributor) 221 copies, 3 reviews

The Best American Travel Writing 2003 (Contributor) 179 copies, 1 review

The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (Contributor) 159 copies

Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and… (Contributor) 104 copies, 2 reviews

About Us: Essays from the New York Times' Disability Series (Foreword) 65 copies, 2 reviews

Granta 140: State of Mind (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review

What’s Language Got to Do with It? (Contributor) 51 copies, 2 reviews

An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family (Contributor) 44 copies

Hebbes 5 (Contributor) 4 copies

Far From the Tree [2017 film] (Original book) 2 copies

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2013) (Contributor) 1 copy

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