Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London.

[23] Solomon described the experience of his family's presence at his mother's planned suicide at the end of a long battle with ovarian cancer in an article for The New Yorker;[24] in a fictionalized account in his novel, A Stone Boat; and again in The Noonday Demon.

Solomon's subsequent depression, eventually managed with psychotherapy and antidepressant medications, inspired his father to secure FDA approval to market citalopram (Celexa) in the United States.

[28] In August 2013, he was awarded a Ph.D. in psychology from Jesus College, Cambridge, with a thesis on attachment theory prepared under the supervision of Juliet Mitchell.

His first novel, A Stone Boat (Faber, 1994), the story of a man's shifting identity as he watches his mother battle cancer, was a runner up for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction prize.

He is founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University,[76] a member of the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign[77] and a patron of the Proud2Be Project.

[81] Solomon has lectured widely on depression, including at Princeton,[82] Yale,[83] Stanford, Harvard,[84] MIT, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress.

[98] He is also a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University,[99] and a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities[100] and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He and journalist John Habich had a civil partnership ceremony on June 30, 2007, at Althorp, the Spencer family estate and childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales.

[103][104] The couple married again on July 17, 2009, the eighth anniversary of their meeting, in Connecticut, so that their marriage would be legally recognized in the state of New York.

Habich is also the biological father of two children, Oliver and Lucy Scher, born to lesbian friends who live in Minneapolis.

The development of this composite family was the subject of a feature article by Solomon published in Newsweek in January 2011,[79] and in an April 2012 profile in The Observer.