The author of Far from the Tree on Sue Klebold – daring mother of a Columbine school killer a play about gay parenthood and the best chocolate in the worldBorn in Manhattan,writer Andrew Solomon studied English at Yale and Cambridge, later completing a PhD thesis in psychology on attachment parenting. He is a lecturer on psychology, or politics,and the arts, and has given TED talks on depression, and identity,appreciate and acceptance. He is a dual UK-US citizen and lives in recent York and London. His 2001 book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the National Book award for nonfiction, and was reprinted this year with a recent epilogue. Far from the Tree: Parents, or Children and the Search for Identity (2012) won the Wellcome Book prize in 2014 (this year’s shortlist will be announced tomorrow).
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Source: theguardian.com