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.