Andrew Solomon, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, and author, Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University, and past President of PEN American Center. He is a writer, lecturer, and activist in mental health, politics, the arts, and LGBTQ rights. He writes regularly for The New Yorker and the New York Times. His bestselling 2012 book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World, published in 2016, has been named a New York Times Notable Book. He previously wrote The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, he made an award-winning film of Far from the Tree and an audio book called New Family Values. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, PEN America, the National LGBTQ Task Force, Yaddo, and the Alex Fund. He lives with his husband and son in New York and London and is a dual national. He also has a daughter with a college friend.
