Deborah Solomon

Deborah Solomon is a journalist and cultural critic with a weekly Q & A column in The New York Times Magazine. She is known for asking unusually direct questions of politicians and other public figures. She was born in New York City on August 9, 1957, and attended Cornell University, where she majored in art history. She also attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

She began her career writing about art, and for most of the '90s 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 and Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell, which was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1997. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2001.

Categories: American journalists, American biographers, art critics