Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon (2015)

Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963 ) is an American lecturer in psychiatry, as well as journalist and writer, who writes primarily on politics, culture and psychology .

Life

He lives in New York and London. The magazines and newspapers he has published in include The New York Times , The New Yorker , Artforum, and Travel and Leisure . Examples of his work are his articles on depression, artists in the Soviet Union, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan , Libyan politics and the culture of the deaf . His work also includes two non-fiction books that have received numerous awards. Saturn's shadow. The Dark Worlds of Depression won the National Book Award in 2001 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. The Times voted it one of the Top Hundred Books of the Decade. For Noonday Demon he was awarded the Lambda Literary Award in 2002. For his 2012 book Far From the Tribe: When Children Are Very Different From Their Parents , Solomon received the National Book Critics Circle Award , the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2012 .

education

Solomon was born in Manhattan and grew up in this part of New York City . He graduated from high school in 1981 with honors. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985 with the distinction magna cum laude . He received his Masters in English from Jesus College , Cambridge. In August 2013 he received his PhD in psychology from the same university. His doctorate was supervised by Juliet Mitchell .

family

Andrew Solomon is the eldest son of Carolyn Bower Solomon and Howard Solomon , the chairman of the board of directors of pharmaceutical company Forest Laboratories . Solomon described the experience of being present at the planned suicide of his mother, who suffered from terminal ovarian cancer, in an article for The New Yorker , in his novel A Stone Boat and in his book Saturn's Shadow. The dark worlds of depression . Solomon suffered from depression after his mother's suicide, which he got under control with psychotherapy and many antidepressants. For his father, this was the reason to acquire US approval for the drug Citalopram ( marketed under the name Celexa in the USA ).

As an adult, Solomon acquired dual citizenship for both the US and the UK. He lives in a registered partnership with journalist John Habich. The couple married a second time in Connecticut on July 19, 2009, so that their marriage could also be recognized in the US state of New York.

In 2003, Solomon and longtime friend Blaine Smith decided to father a child together. Their daughter was born in November 2007. Mother and daughter live in Texas. A son, George Charles Habich Salomon, was born in April 2009 and lives in New York with Solomon and Habich. Habich is his adoptive father. Habich is the biological father of two children who are raised by a lesbian couple. The development of this blended family was the subject of an essay that Solomon described in Newsweek magazine in January 2011 and portrayed in The Observer in April 2012 .

Single receipts

1. ↑ Andrew Solomon: A Cure for Poverty . In: The New York Times Magazine , May 6, 2001. 
2. ↑ Andrew Solomon: Young Russia's Defiant Decadence . In: The New York Times Magazine , July 28, 1993. 
3. ↑ Andrew Solomon: An Awakening From the Nightmare of the Taliban . In: The New York Times Magazine , March 10, 2002. 
4. ^ Andrew Solomon: Circle of Fire: Letter from Libya . In: The New Yorker , May 28, 2006. 
5. ^ Andrew Solomon: How Qaddafi Lost Libya . In: The New Yorker , February 21, 2011. 
6. ↑ Andrew Solomon: Defiantly Deaf . In: The New York Times Magazine , August 28, 1994. 
7. ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes: Nominated Finalists . 2002. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
8. ^ The 100 Best Books of the Decade . In: The Times , November 14, 2009. 
9. ↑ Barbara Hoffer: National Book Critics Circle Announces Awards for Publishing Year 2012 . In: Critical Mass . February 28, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
10. ^ Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Andrew Solomon Wins the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Nonfiction . April 22, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
11. ↑ Meredith Moss: 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced . In: Dayton Daily News , Sept. 24, 2013. Retrieved 2014-04-2803. 
12. ^ Beau Gardner: Literature As A High Calling ( PDF ) In: Foundations for Excellence, A Campaign . Horace Mann Alumni. 2002. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2014. 
13. ↑ Yale College: Andrew Solomon (PDF) Archived from the original on February 28, 2013. Information: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2014. 
14. ↑ Jesus College: Annual Report 2011 (PDF) Archived from the original on April 17, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 28, 2014. 
15. ↑ Andrew Solomon: A Death of One's Own . In: The New Yorker , May 22, 1995. 
16. ^ Susan Berfield: A CEO and His Son . In: Bloomberg Business Week , May 26, 2002. 
17. ↑ Eric Pfanner: Vows: Andrew Solomon and John Habich . In: New York Times , July 8, 2007. 
18. ↑ Geordie Grieg: My Big Fab Gay Wedding . In: Tatler , October 2007. 
19. ^ ^{A b} Andrew Solomon: Meet My Real Modern Family . In: Newsweek , January 30, 2011. 
20. ↑ Brockes Emma: It's Complicated . In: The Guardian , April 21, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2014.