Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon (born 1963) is an American writer on politics, culture, and health who lives in New York and London. He has written for the "New York Times", "The New Yorker", "Artforum", as well as for other publications, on topics as diverse as Soviet artists, dwarfism, Libyan politics, deaf culture, contemporary art, and Mongolian travel. He is the author of several books, including "," for which he won a Lambda Literary Awardcite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_winners.html |title=Lambda Literary Awards 2007 |date=2007-03-21 |accessdate=2007-08-12] and a National Book Award in 2001 [ National Book Foundation [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2001.html National Book Awards - 2001] ] and was a finalist for a 2002 Pulitzer Prize. [The Pulitzer Prize [http://www.pulitzer.org/cyear/2002f.html Nominated Finalists - 2002] ]

He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities [ New York Institute for the Humanities. Fellows: [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/nyih/about/solomon_andrew.html Andrew Solomon] ] and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Education

Solomon graduated from Yale University magna cum laude in 1985. [The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression [http://www.noondaydemon.com/biography.html About the Author] ] He studied English at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, earning a starred first-class degree.

Family

A dual citizen of the United States and United Kingdom, Solomon married John Habich on June 30, 2007, in an official civil partnership ceremony at Althorp, the estate of the late Princess Diana and the official residence of Earl Spencer, located in Northampton, England. Solomon's father, Howard, is chairman of Forest Laboratories. [Pfanner, Eric [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/weddings/08vows.html?ref=weddings Andrew Solomon and John Habich] , "The New York Times", July 8, 2007. Accessed October 18, 2007.]

Publications

Solomon was a contributing writer for "The New York Times Magazine" from 1993-2001.

He is known for his chronicling of his own experience with clinical depression in "" for which he won the Mind charity's Book of the Year [ [http://www.mind.org.uk/News+policy+and+campaigns/Press+archive/Andrew+Solomons+landmark+work+on+depression+wins+Mind+book+of+the+year+2002.htm Mind Book of the Year 2002] ] . Solomon has been active on with several organizations associated with the destigmatization of depression including the [http://www.nostigma.org/ National Mental Health Awareness Campaign] and the [http://www.med.umich.edu/depression/ Depression Center of the University of Michigan] .

He is writing a book, to be published in 2010, called "A Dozen Kinds of Love: Raising Traumatic Children," which deals with how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities.

He has also written a loosely autobiographical novel which deals with a gay man losing his mother to cancer. "Kirkus Reviews" called the novel "An elegant and moving examination of a difficult subject." ["Kirkus Reviews," August 1, 1994]

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