Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is a writer, lecturer, and professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University. Solomon’s newest book, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity” (2012), won the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction and was chosen as one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012. Solomon’s previous book, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” (2001), won the National Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a director of the University of Michigan Depression Center and Columbia Psychiatry, a member of the board of visitors of Columbia University Medical Center, of the national advisory board of the Depression Center at the University of Michigan, and on the advisory board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. In 2011, he was appointed special advisor on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health at the Yale School of Psychiatry.