Andrew Solomon is a writer of remarkable talent and intellect. His books and essays explore the subjects of politics, culture and psychology with extraordinary humanity.

Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 7:00pm

Andrew Solomon’s memoir, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was a worldwide bestseller – published in more than twenty languages. It is included in the London Times One Hundred Best Books of the Decade, and it is widely considered the definitive text on depression. Acclaimed as a revolutionary feat of journalism, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity, is an examination of the means by which families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and how these unusual situations can be invested with love. 

Andrew is an outspoken activist and philanthropist for many causes in LGBT rights, mental health, family, disability issues, education and the arts. He is the founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. He holds a PhD degree in Psychology from Jesus College, Cambridge and is the former President of PEN American Center. In 2021, Andrew became a lecturer at Yale Medical School.

More about Andrew at https://tuesdayagency.com/andrew-solomon/

This event is co-sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University Office of the Provost’s Hollister Lecture Fund, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, The Department of Psychology, and The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN).