Charles Solomon is an American animation historian, author, and film critic who wrote multiple books about Disney animation and other animated works.
[1][2] Solomon attended University of California Los Angeles for his bachelor's and master's degrees in European cultural history.
[3] Enchanted Drawings, Solomon's 1989 book on the history of American animation,[4] was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was also nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award (a first for a film book).
[5] Solomon has written about the subject for NPR,[1] Variety,[1] Rolling Stone[1] and The New York Times.
[6] Solomon, writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1986, listed his picks for the best animated films of the 1980s:[7]