Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia; a Lecturer in Psychology at Yale; past President of PEN America; a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; and an activist in LGBT rights and mental health. He writes for The New Yorker and the New York Times. His books include Far and Away; New Family Values (audiobook); Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity; and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, which won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He also made a film of Far from the Tree.