ABSTRACT
Andrew Solomon has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and many other publications. In addition to essays on art, politics, and matters related to mental illness, he has authored a book on Russian artists, The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, a novel entitled A Stone Boa, and a work of non-fiction, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which has been translated into twenty-two languages. The Noonday Demon was the winner of fourteen national awards, including the 2001 National Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times bestseller. Andrew Solomon's most recent book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, has won, in addition to numerous other awards, the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the ten best books of 2012 by The New York Times.
