Deborah Solomon

Deborah Solomon (born August 9, 1957) is a journalist and cultural critic with a weekly Q&A column in The New York Times Magazine. Her "Questions For" column is known for its frank, sometimes acerbic tone and has appeared in the newspaper's Sunday magazine since 2003. Solomon 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.

Solomon began her career writing about art for various publications. For most of the 1990s, she served as the chief art critic of The Wall Street Journal. She has written extensively about American painting in particular, and is the author of several biographies of American artists. In 2001, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, in the field of biography.

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

Bibliography

• Jackson Pollock: A Biography" (Simon & Schuster, 1987, ISBN 978-0815411826)

• Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997, ISBN 978-0878466849)

• Forthcoming biography of Norman Rockwell, to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, in 2009.

Criticism

In 2006, NBC television host Tim Russert, who was interviewed by Solomon for her "Questions For" column, publicly accused her of distoring his comments. The interview had been scheduled for Mother's Day, and Russert charged that it mischaracterized him by failing to include his comments about his mother. [1][2]

Trivia

Solomon appears as the crush object of a 15-year-old Canadian boy in the novel "The Flying Troutmans," which was published in 2008 by the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews.

External links

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[Interviews by Deborah Solomon for the New York Times]