Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression

Andrew Solomon, whose FAN lecture last year about his book Far from the Tree drew a standing ovation, returns to FANdom to speak on the subject of his 2001 National Book Award-winning The noonday demon. FAN has given this lecture the title “Depression, Too, Is a Thing with Feathers.”

Location: Street: Gaffney Auditorium, New Trier High School, Winnetka campus City: Winnetka, Province: Illinois Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far From The Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed novel A Stone Boat. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Advisor on LGBT affairs to the Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Bookworks and the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry Present Andrew Solomon

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Bookworks and the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry are pleased to present acclaimed author and lecturer in psychiatry, Andrew Solomon. Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology and the author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. Far From the Tree was winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2012 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Kikus, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, Boston Globe, Economist, and Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

Far From the Tree tells the stories of families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. Solomon posits that the experience of difference within families is universal, as are the struggles toward compassion and the triumphs of love. Solomon’s own journey to accept his own identity and his decision to become a parent are interwoven.

A native New Yorker, Andrew Solomon attended the Horace Mann School, graduating cum laude in 1981. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1985, graduating magna cum laude, and later earned a Master’s degree in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he received the top first-class degree in English in his year, the only foreign student ever to be so-honored, as well as the University writing prize. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at Jesus College, Cambridge, working on maternal identity.

Solomon has been a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. A frequent writer on gay marriage, his articles on the subject have appeared in Newsweek, The Advocate, and Anderson Cooper 360. His July 2007 marriage to John Habich was reported in the New York Times, The London Sunday Times, Tatler, Newsweek, and numerous other publications. Solomon lives with Habich and their son in New York. He is also the father of a daughter with longtime friend Blaine Smith.

Location: Street: Domenici Center Auditorium, UNM Health Sciences Center Additional: UNM North Campus, @Stanford & Tucker City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The noonday demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the 2001 National Book Award; and of the critically acclaimed 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. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)