Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is an American writer who lives in New York and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and other publications on a range of subjects, including politics and contemporary art. The Irony Tower (1991) was his first published book, followed by novel A Stone Boat (1994) and memoir The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, the latter of which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times list of the hundred best books of the decade. Solomon's newest book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities, was published in 2012.