A writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Andrew Solomon received a National Book Award for The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which examined the human condition with erudition and candor. A New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, the book received the Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography/Memoir. His other works include The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost and A Stone Boat, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. In Far From the Tree, he explores themes of generosity, acceptance, and love, in telling the profound stories of parents who find profound meaning in learning to deal with their exceptional children.