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The Met, Mrs. Vreeland, and Me
An awkward teenager flourishes in the glamour of the the Metropolitan Museum.
Andrew Solomon is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards) and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of fourteen awards, including the 2001 National Book Award. His first novel, A Stone Boat, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award, has recently been reissued. Solomon’s work is published in twenty-two languages. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry. For speaking engagements, please contact the Tuesday Agency.
An awkward teenager flourishes in the glamour of the the Metropolitan Museum.
A survivor of the Pol Pot's death squads teaches an American to handle depression.
While studying treatments for depression in rural Africa, Solomon has an overly intimate encounter with a ram.