Far from the Tree

Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture, and psychology, and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. He is the author of the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity; The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost; and the novel A Stone Boat.

Solomon is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts. He is founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and a member of the boards of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Trans Youth Family Allies. 

He is a director of the University of Michigan Depression Center and Columbia Psychiatry; a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia University Medical Center, the National Advisory Board of the Depression Center at the University of Michigan, and the Advisory Board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. He serves as special advisor on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Mental Health at the Yale School of Psychiatry.