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Deborah Solomon

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Deborah Solomon (born August 9, 1957) is a journalist and cultural critic with a weekly Q&A column in The New York Times Magazine. She was born in New York City and was educated at Cornell University, where she majored in art history. She received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

She began her career writing about art, and for most of the 1990s served as the chief art critic of The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of several biographies of American artists, including Jackson Pollock: A Biography (1987) and Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell (1997). She is completing a biography of Norman Rockwell, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001.

She is married to Kent Sepkowitz, a physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and they have two sons.

Criticism

Ms. Soloman has been widely criticized for editing, distorting and manipulating comments in response to her "Questions for" column. [1] [2]