Andrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which has won thirty additional national awards; and The Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author's website at AndrewSolomon.com.
"Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a
quarter-century of soul-shaking essays."-- "Vanity Fair"
From Cape Town to Bucharest, and Hangzhou to Tripoli, Andrew
Solomon's Far and Away is positively Whitmanian in its openness to
difficulty and its embodiment of wonder. I felt exposed and
expanded. This book is an ecstatic provocation to understand
ourselves not as citizens of nations but as citizens of the entire
world, a world whose territories are glorious and troubled and
desperately connected.--Leslie Jamison
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