Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon was born in New York City. He studied at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He resides in both London and New York and holds dual citizenship. He has served on the boards of organizations such as Outward Bound, The Alliance for the Arts, The Shakespeare Project, The World Monuments Fund, The New York Public Library, and The New York Institute for the Humanities, and is a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale. He regularly contributes to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In 1991, he published a study on Russian painters titled "The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost." His first novel, "A Stone Boat," was released in 1994. His next work, "The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression" (2001), which stemmed from his struggle with chronic depression triggered by his mother's death from cancer, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won the 2001 National Book Award, and received at least ten other awards. It has been translated into more than twenty languages.