21 Facts About Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon was born on October 30,1963 and is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London.

Andrew Solomon has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics.

Andrew Solomon is a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, a lecturer at Yale School of Medicine, and a past President of PEN American Center.

Andrew Solomon described the experience of his family's presence at his mother's planned suicide at the end of a long battle with ovarian cancer in an article for The New Yorker; in a fictionalized account in his novel, A Stone Boat; and again in The Noonday Demon.

In 1988, Andrew Solomon began his study of Russian artists, which culminated with the publication of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost.

Andrew Solomon's first novel, A Stone Boat, the story of a man's shifting identity as he watches his mother battle cancer, was a runner up for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize.

From 1993 to 2001, Andrew Solomon was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

In Summer of 2014, Andrew Solomon was appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center.

In 2014, Andrew Solomon was awarded the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

In February 2016, Andrew Solomon wrote the introduction to A Mother's Reckoning, a memoir by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, Dylan Klebold.

Andrew Solomon interviewed Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

On November 10,2017, Far from the Tree, a documentary based on Andrew Solomon's book, premiered at the DOC NYC festival.

Andrew Solomon is an activist and philanthropist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, education and the arts.

Andrew Solomon is founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University, a member of the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign and a patron of the Proud2Be Project.

Andrew Solomon has lectured widely on depression, including at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress.

Andrew Solomon is a Distinguished Associate of the Centre for Family Research at Cambridge University; a director of the University of Michigan Depression Center, Columbia Psychiatry, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; a member of the board of visitors of Columbia Medical School, and the Advisory Boards of the Mental Health Policy Forum at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.

Andrew Solomon's work in the arts and education has included service on the boards of the Alliance for the Arts, the World Monuments Fund, and The Alex Fund, which supports the education of Romani children, He is a member of the PEN American Center Board of Directors, and served as its president from 2015 to 2018.

Andrew Solomon is a Trustee of the New York Public Library, a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, and a member of the Board of Directors of the artists' retreat Yaddo.

Andrew Solomon is a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2003, Andrew Solomon and longtime friend Blaine Smith had a child together; their daughter, Carolyn Blaine Smith Andrew Solomon, was born in November 2007.

The development of this composite family was the subject of a feature article by Andrew Solomon published in Newsweek in January 2011, and in an April 2012 profile in The Observer.