Andrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of Far and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which has won thirty additional national awards; and The Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author's website at AndrewSolomon.com.
"Far and Away is a big, sumptuous collection of those pieces of
reportage and travel writing. . . . . Solomon is foremost a keenly
sympathetic observer; in every one of these reprinted pieces, he's
carefully watching the everyday people on whose homes and plights
he's also reporting. . . . . But prevailing mood is a smart,
detail-oriented exuberance; this is a shrewd and generous view of
the world as few people get to see it."-- "Steve Donoghue,
Christian Science Monitor"
"Far and Away is a reminder that, although foreign reporting isn't
easy, and that American journalists probably get places wrong as
often as they get them right, deep work is worth doing and worth
paying for, both to encourage cultural exchange and because a
skilled writer who reports at length may create literature."--
"Pacific Standard"
"Andrew Solomon's magisterial Far and Away collects a
quarter-century of soul-shaking essays."-- "Vanity Fair"
From Cape Town to Bucharest, and Hangzhou to Tripoli, Andrew
Solomon's Far and Away is positively Whitmanian in its openness to
difficulty and its embodiment of wonder. I felt exposed and
expanded. This book is an ecstatic provocation to understand
ourselves not as citizens of nations but as citizens of the entire
world, a world whose territories are glorious and troubled and
desperately connected.--Leslie Jamison
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