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drew Solomon’s books have won over fifty awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Wellcome Prize. His most recent book, from 2016, is Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World, which was one of the New York Times‘ best books of the year. His previous books include Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, the novel A Stone Boat, and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost in 1991. His TED talks have garnered more than 15 million views. Solomon is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and President of PEN American Center. He lives with his husband, John Habich Solomon, and son in New York and London, and is a dual national.