Solomon's paternal grandfather, who was Jewish, emigrated from Dorohoi, Romania, to the United States in 1900.[21] Solomon is the oldest son of Carolyn Bower Solomon and Howard Solomon, former chairman of Forest Laboratories and founder of Hildred Capital Partners;[22] he is brother to David Solomon, also of Hildred Capital Partners.[23] Solomon described the experience of his family's presence at his mother's planned suicide at the end of a long battle with ovarian cancer in an article for The New Yorker;[24] in a fictionalized account in his novel, A Stone Boat; and again in The Noonday Demon. Solomon's subsequent depression, eventually managed with psychotherapy and antidepressant medications, inspired his father to secure FDA approval to market citalopram (Celexa) in the United States.[25]
In 1988, Solomon began his study of Russian artists, which culminated with the publication of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost (Knopf, 1991). His first novel, A Stone Boat (Faber, 1994), the story of a man's shifting identity as he watches his mother battle cancer, was a runner up for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize.[29]
In 2003, Solomon's article, "The Amazing Life of Laura", a profile of diarist Laura Rothenberg, received the Clarion Award for Health Care Journalism, and the Angel of Awareness Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.[41] In April 2009, his article, "Cancer & Creativity: One Chef's True Story,"[42] received the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism by the International Association of Culinary Professionals;[43] the story was also a finalist for the 11th Annual Henry R. Luce Award.[44] Solomon's reminiscence on a friend who committed suicide won the Folio Eddie Gold Award in 2011.[45][46]
In addition to his magazine work, Solomon has written essays for many anthologies and books of criticism, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio's Moth Radio Hour.[47][48]
Following publication of Far from the Tree, Solomon was also honored with the Yale Department of Psychiatry's Neuroscience 2013 Research Advocacy Award,[60] the Fountain House Humanitarian Award,[61] the Gray Matters Award from the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry,[62] the University of Michigan's Mike Wallace Award,[63] the Friend and Benefactor Award of the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership,[64] the National Alliance on Mental Illness Seeds of Hope Award, and the Klerman Award from the Weill-Cornell Medical College Department of Psychiatry.[65]
In April 2016, Scribner published Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change, a collection of Solomon's international reporting since 1991;[70] the book has since been reissued with the title, Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World.[71]The New York Times included Far and Away in its list of 100 Notable Books of 2016.[72]
On November 10, 2017, Far from the Tree, a documentary based on Solomon's book, premiered at the DOC NYC festival.[73] North American rights to the documentary have been acquired by Sundance Selects.[74]
In July 2020, Solomon was one of the 153 signers of the "Harper's Letter" (also known as "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate") that expressed concern that "the free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is dally becoming more constricted."[101]
Personal lifeedit
As an adult, Solomon became a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom. He and journalist John Habich had a civil partnership ceremony on June 30, 2007, at Althorp, the Spencer family estate and childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales.[102][103] The couple married again on July 17, 2009, the eighth anniversary of their meeting, in Connecticut, so that their marriage would be legally recognized in the state of New York.[78][104]
In 2003, Solomon and longtime friend Blaine Smith had a child together; their daughter, Carolyn Blaine Smith Solomon, was born in November 2007. Smith and their child live in Texas. A son, George Charles Habich Solomon, was born in April 2009, and lives in New York with Solomon and Habich, his adoptive father. Habich is also the biological father of two children, Oliver and Lucy Scher, born to lesbian friends who live in Minneapolis. The development of this composite family was the subject of a feature article by Solomon published in Newsweek in January 2011,[78] and in an April 2012 profile in The Observer.[105]
Bibliographyedit
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Non-fictionedit
The irony tower : Soviet artists in a time of glasnost. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1991.
"The reckoning : the father of the Sandy Hook killer searches for answers". Annals of Psychology. The New Yorker. 90 (4): 36–45. March 17, 2014.
Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change. Scribner, New York. 2016.
"The Shape of Love: From Opposite Sides of the Culture, Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms". Annals of Domestic Life. The New Yorker. 97 (5): 32–45. March 22, 2021.[a]
Fictionedit
A Stone Boat. Faber & Faber, New York. 1994.
Reviews and criticism of Solomon's workedit
Far from the Tree
Heller, Nathan (November 19, 2012). "Little Strangers". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 36. pp. 85–90.
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Notes
^Online version is titled "How Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms".
^ abSolomon, Andrew (May 6, 2001). "A Cure for Poverty". The New York Times Magazine.
^ abSolomon, Andrew (July 28, 1993). "Young Russia's Defiant Decadence". The New York Times Magazine.
^ abSolomon, Andrew (March 10, 2002). "An Awakening From the Nightmare of the Taliban". The New York Times Magazine.
^Solomon, Andrew (May 28, 2006). "Circle of Fire: Letter from Libya". The New Yorker.
^Solomon, Andrew (February 21, 2011). "How Qaddafi Lost Libya". The New Yorker.
^ abSolomon, Andrew (August 28, 1994). "Defiantly Deaf". The New York Times Magazine.
^"The Noonday Demon" (book website). Retrieved February 10, 2012.
^ abAwards, National Book Foundation, 2001, retrieved February 20, 2012 (With acceptance speech by Solomon.)
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^"The 100 Best Books of the Decade". The Times. London. November 14, 2009.(subscription required)
^ abHoffer, Barbara (February 28, 2013). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Awards for Publishing Year 2012". Critical Mass (press release). Archived from the original on March 4, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
^ abNational Council on Crime & Delinquency (June 20, 2013). "The Winners of the 20th Annual Media for a Just Society Awards" (press release). Archived from the original on December 15, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
^ abAnisfield-Wolf Book Award (April 22, 2013). "Andrew Solomon Wins the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Nonfiction" (press release). Retrieved October 3, 2013.
^ abCharles, Ron (April 18, 2013). "Andrew Solomon wins Lukas Book Prize". Washington Post.
^ ab"Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon wins the Wellcome Book Prize 2014". Wellcome Trust. April 30, 2014. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
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^"Current Board of Trustees (2018-2019)". PEN America. September 20, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
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