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Andrew is the English form of a given name and surname common in many countries. Alternatives include André, Andrey, Andrei, Andrzej, Andrej, András, Andrés, Andrius, Andreas, Andreu, Anders, Antero and Endrew. ‘Andrew’ is a common name in English-speaking countries. In the 1990s it was among the top ten most popular names for boys in those countries.^[3] In Italian, the equivalent to "Andrew" is "Andrea", though "Andrea" is feminine in most other languages. Andrew is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew".

The word is derived from the Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas,^[4] itself related to Ancient Greek: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.^[5]

Popularity[link]

Australia[link]

In 1990, the name Andrew was the seventh most popular name in Australia.^[6] In 1980, it was the 19th most common name,^[7] while in 1970, it was the 31st most common name.^[8] Andrew was the second most popular boys name in the Northern Territory in 1980.^[9] In Victoria, Andrew was the third most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.^[10]

Canada[link]

Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005.^[11] Andrew was the 16th most popular name for infants in British Columbia in 2004,^[12] the 17th most popular name in 2003,^[13] and the 19th most popular name in 2002.^[14] In 2001, it was the 18th most common name.^[15] From 1999 - 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.^[16]

Europe[link]

In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth most common boy's name among infants, and it was third in 1964.^[17]

In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second most common boy's name of the 1990s.^[18]

United States[link]

The eleventh most common baby name in 2006,^[46] Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005.^[47] Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004.^[48] In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States.^[49][50][51] In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular choice of baby name in the United States.^[52] In the 1970s it was the 31st most popular name.^[53] From the 1960s stretching back at least as far as the 1880s, Andrew was not among the forty most popular names in America.^{[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]}

Andrew variants[link]

• Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra : Scottish Gaelic for males
• Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas : Irish Gaelic for males
• Anaru: New Zealand, for males - Maori transliteration of Andrew
• Ander: Basque for males
• Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for males
• András, Endre: Hungarian for males
• Andraš Prekmurian for males
• Andraž: Slovene for males
• Andre: Javanese for males
• André: French, Galician, Portuguese, Armenian for males
• Andrea: Albanian, Italian for males; Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish for females
• Andreas: Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh for males
• Andreea: Romanian for females
• Andrée: French for females
• Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for males
• Andrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Russian or Macedonian for males
• Andreia: Portuguese for females
• Andreina: Italian for females
• Andris: Latvian for males
• Andrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Croatian and Serbian, Slovene for males
• Andrey: Russian and Bulgarian for males (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrey for both); Romanian for males
• Andreja: Croatian, Slovene for females
• Andres: Estonian for males
• Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish for males
• Andreu: Catalan for males
• Andreus: Greek
• Andrew: English for males
• Andric: English for males
• Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans for males
• Andri: Icelandic for Males
• Andrii: Ukrainian for males
• Andrija: Croatian, Serbian for males
• Andris or Andrejs: Latvian for males
• Andriú: Gaeilge for males
• Andrius: Lithuanian for males
• Andriy: Ukrainian for males
• Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish for males
• Andrzeja: Polish for females; obsolete
• Ondřej: Czech for males
• Indri: Maltese for males
• In Albanian: Andrea, Endri, Ndreçi (diminutive), Andri, Andi (witch is the same as Andy but fot effects of pronounciation in albanian language is used like Andi), only for males
• Antti : Finnish for males

For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms

Famous Andrews[link]

Saint Andrew[link]

In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles.

Other saints named Andrew include:

• Saint Andrew of Trier (d. 235), Bishop of Trier
• Saint Andrew of Crete, an 8th century archbishop, theologian, homilist, and hymnographer
• Saint Andrew of Crete (martyr)
• Saint Andrew of Constantinople
• Saints Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran, Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen, Andrew Trong Van Tram, and Andrew Tuong of the Vietnamese Martyrs
• Saint Andrew Kim Taegon of the Korean Martyrs

Kings Andrew[link]

• King Andrew I of Hungary
• King Andrew II of Hungary
• King Andrew III of Hungary

Princes Andrew[link]

• Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960–), second son of Elizabeth II
• Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882–1944), the aforementioned's paternal grandfather and namesake
• Edward VIII (1894–1972) bore the name Andrew
• Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972), grandson of George V, was William Henry Andrew Frederick

United States Presidents[link]

• Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States of America)
• Andrew Johnson (17th President of the United States of America)

Business, culture, science and sport[link]

• Andre Agassi - American tennis player
• Andrew Bloom, American Olympic shot putter
• Andrew Bogut - basketball player
• Andrew Brunette - ice hockey player
• Andrew Buckley - field hockey player
• Andrew Bynum - basketball player
• Andrew Carnegie - steel magnate and philanthropist
• Andrew "Dice" Clay - comedian
• Andrew Clayton - freestyle swimmer
• Andrew Cole - footballer
• Andrew Davies - screenwriter
• Andrew Flintoff - cricketer
• Andrew Rube Foster - Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
• Andrew Gaze - basketball player
• Andy Gibb - pop singer and composer
• Andrew Graham-Dixon - art historian and broadcaster
• Andy Griffith - actor/singer/comedian
• Andrew Hastie - field hockey player
• Andrew Huxley - physiologist
• Andrew Johns - rugby league player
• Andrew Johnson - footballer
• Andrew Johnston - actor
• Andy Kaufman - comedian
• Andrew Knott - English actor
• Andrew Ladd - ice hockey player
• Andrew Lang - man of letters
• Andrew Lincoln - British actor
• Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer and impresario
• Andrew Luck - American football player
• Andrew Marr - broadcaster
• Andrew Murray - tennis player
• Andrew Marvell - poet
• Andrew Neil - political journalist and broadcaster
• Andrew Raycroft - ice hockey player
• Andy Richter - actor/writer/comedian
• Andrew Ridgeley - English musician
• Andrew Robinson - water polo player
• Andrew Sachs - character actor
• Andrew Sega - American musician
• Andrew "Andy" Shernoff - songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The Dictators
• Andrew Stahl - television and film actor
• Andrew Stanton - "Pixar" producer, director, voice actor, and screenwriter
• Andrew Stockdale - guitarist and singer of Wolfmother
• Andrew Symonds - cricketer
• Andrew Tanenbaum - Computer Scientist
• Andrew Timlin - field hockey player
• Andrew Toney - basketball player
• Andy Van Slyke - baseball player
• Andrew Van Wyngarden - musician
• Andrew W.K. - singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker
• Andrew Wagner - American film director
• Andrew Walter - American football player
• Andy Warhol - famous Pop artist
• Andrew Wood (singer) - singer
• Andrew Towle - Jazz saxophonist

Brother Andrew[link]

• Brother Andrew is a Christian famed for his message to the oppressed church behind the Iron Curtain and for founding the charity Open Doors.

In fiction[link]

• Andrew, angel of death from Touched by an Angel
• Andy Davis, character from Disney Pixar's Toy Story and its sequels
• Andrew, robot from Isaac Asimov's 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man and its 1999 film adaptation
• Andrew Wiggin aka Ender Wiggin, the title character from Orson Scott Card's famous science fiction novel Ender's Game
• Andrew "Drew" Torres, from Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Andrew "Andy" Dufresne, from the Stephen King novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the film adaption The Shawshank Redemption.

See also[link]

• All pages beginning with "Andrew"
• All pages beginning with "Andy"
• All pages beginning with "Drew"
• Andy (given name)
• Andre (disambiguation)
• Andreas (disambiguation)
• Andrey
• Andrea
• Andreou

References[link]

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Andrew Ross McMahon (born September 3, 1982) is a singer/songwriter. He is the vocalist, pianist and primary songwriter for the bands Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin; he also performs solo.^[1]

Early life[link]

McMahon was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He briefly lived in New Jersey until 1991, when his family moved to Bexley, Ohio where he attended Cassingham Elementary School. His family relocated frequently due to his father's occupation in retail. McMahon recalls that while he was in fourth grade, they briefly stayed in California to support his mother's family after the loss of her brother. The death had a large impact on the family, and Andrew has a tattoo on his forearm in his uncle's memory. Following the death of his uncle, who was a musician himself, McMahon became inspired to get involved with music, and began teaching himself piano very soon afterward.

McMahon's family decided to settle in California shortly before he entered eighth grade. He would later describe himself as "a pudgy, outgoing, artistic little kid who never quite fit into the California scene". He graduated from the public Dana Hills High School in 2000.

Career[link]

Early work[link]

He started playing the piano at age 8. The following year, he began performing piano solos before he could even read music. In an interview, McMahon states "my mother was a good player and I started playing by ear. After a year of that, I began writing songs, and found outlets to perform them at school assemblies. Eventually, I got lessons." ^[2]

McMahon started his first band Left Here with his high school friends and future Something Corporate bandmates Kevin "Clutch" Page on bass and Brian Ireland on drums in 1997.

Even though they won a local battle of the bands competition, they soon broke up. McMahon went on to record the self-released eponymous four-track demo CD Andrew McMahon with the aid of several friends of his, including guitarist Josh Partington, whom he had met his sophomore year in high school. Joined by rhythm guitarist Reuben Hernandez (who was later replaced by William Tell), the quintet formed the piano rock band Something Corporate in 1998.

Something Corporate[link]

Fronted by McMahon, Something Corporate recorded their self-released ten-song demo album Ready... Break in 2000, which led to a record deal with the indie record label Drive-Thru Records. Drive-Thru released the band's nationwide distributed debut EP Audioboxer the following year. McMahon's vocals, songwriting skills and especially the incorporation of the piano earned the CD rave reviews and caught the attention of Drive-Thru's distributor MCA (now Geffen). Due to the labels' distribution deal, MCA was able to sign over Something Corporate and released their major label debut Leaving Through the Window in May 2002.

The band promoted the album by playing concerts across the United States, which included the main stage at Vans Warped Tour as well as supporting New Found Glory, whose vocalist Jordan Pundik used to be McMahon's roommate, on their European tour. Something Corporate released their second full-length album North on Geffen Records in late 2003 and toured with 311, Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, and Jimmy Eat World. As of 2004, and the signing of Jack's Mannequin to Maverick Records, the band is no longer under contract to any label.

On December 4, 2009, Something Corporate announced one reunion show at Bamboozle Left 2010. An additional show was later added at Bamboozle Chicago 2010. After Bamboozle the band announced their reunion tour, which took place in August 2010.

Jack's Mannequin[link]

The initial impulse behind McMahon's solo project Jack's Mannequin was "Locked Doors", a song he recorded in December 2003, which he felt was too different from previous Something Corporate material. He realized that, if he would ever decide to release it, it would be on a solo album rather than a Something Corporate record.^[3] The idea seemed to be off the table until, in late summer 2004, both McMahon and his bandmates were exhausted from months of touring. They decided to take a temporary break. During his time off, McMahon laid down piano and vocal tracks for a song on Hidden in Plain View's Life in Dreaming and two songs on Tommy Lee's Tommyland: The Ride.

While Something Corporate's other songwriter and lead guitarist Partington created a side project of his own called Firescape, McMahon started writing songs, knowing they would not be released under Something Corporate. After Something Corporate dissolved, McMahon started working on his solo project, Jack's Mannequin, as an outlet for these songs. McMahon took a more therapeutic approach in writing these songs, resulting in a more personal and intimate testament of his songwriting. They dealt with "coming home, and having home be way different than I had remembered it [...], abandoning a lot of people, and things, that I had normally been so attached to [...], exploring and being okay with myself, and not having to make excuses for who I am, and accepting who I am", McMahon stated in an interview.^[4]

Over the next couple of months, McMahon began recording the newly written songs with producer Jim Wirt, who played guitar and bass over sampled drum tracks, while McMahon contributed vocals and piano. They later brought in additional musicians such as Bobby "Raw" Anderson (formerly of River City High) and Tommy Lee to add to the mix. In an eerily foreshadowing moment, the project's name, Jack's Mannequin, came from a friend of his whose brother was diagnosed with childhood leukemia. McMahon was soon diagnosed with leukemia himself, and later went on to write the song "Dear Jack" in tribute to the original Jack. In March 2005, Jack's Mannequin — now consisting of McMahon on vocals and piano, Jon Sullivan on bass, Anderson on guitar, and Jay McMillan (ex-River City High) on drums — played their first live show at Molly Malone's Irish pub in Los Angeles, California. The first album Everything in Transit was released in August 2005.

After the release and success of the first album, McMahon then proceeded to compose his second Jack's Mannequin album, The Glass Passenger, which was released in September 2008. The first single, "The Resolution", is the band's highest-charting song to date.

Following "The Glass Passenger," McMahon, began working on Jack's Mannequin's third album, People and Things. For this album, he wanted to touch on subjects other than his battle with leukemia. He stated that this new album "[would] probably have a bit of freeness" to it, distancing itself from "The Glass Passenger." ^[5] The album was released in October 2011 with the single "My Racing Thoughts" preceding it in July of the same year.

Personal life[link]

On May 27, 2005 (three months before the release of Jack's Mannequin's debut album Everything in Transit), McMahon was forced to cancel all of his upcoming concerts.^[6] After a medical examination in connection with a relentless case of laryngitis, McMahon was admitted to a hospital in New York City, where he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on June 1, 2005, the same day he finished recording Everything in Transit.^[7] Since the illness was diagnosed in its early stages, McMahon's doctors had high hopes for a full recovery.^[8]

Over the following couple of months, McMahon received various types of treatment, all the while updating his blog to keep his fans informed on the progress of his condition. August 23, 2005 marked a very significant date for him for two reasons: it was the day his album Everything in Transit was released, debuting at #37 on the Billboard 200 with over 22,000 copies scanned within its first week, as well as the day he received a stem cell transplant, with his sister Katie McMahon serving as the donor.^[9] As a thank-you, he wrote and recorded a song called "There, There, Katie" for her. The song was finally played live at a Jack's Mannequin concert on 7/11/2006 in Cleveland, Ohio where Katie was in attendance for the performance.

On December 2, 2005, McMahon celebrated the 100-day anniversary of his stem cell transplant by playing his first concert in six months: a private invite-only show in a small venue in Los Angeles, California. His first public appearance followed ten days later at "Gimme Shelter '05", an acoustic cancer benefit concert at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California. Following these shows, Maverick Records finally started a promotion campaign for Everything in Transit, including TV appearances by McMahon on Jimmy Kimmel Live, One Tree Hill (in the episode "Just Watch the Fireworks"), Last Call with Carson Daly, Steven's Untitled Rock Show, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, as well as a second music video for "The Mixed Tape", which hit #1 on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown on June 9, 2006. Simultaneously, Jack's Mannequin embarked on a two-month tour across the United States supporting Of A Revolution.

In July 2006, McMahon founded a non-profit charity, entitled The Dear Jack Foundation, to raise funds for cancer research. The organization's primary beneficiaries are the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the regents of the University of California, Los Angeles.^[10]

On July 9, 2006, McMahon announced at his Summerfest Jack's Mannequin concert that that night would be the last night he would have to take medication for his cancer treatment. Soon after, the second single from Everything in Transit, "Dark Blue", was released. This was followed by gaining an opening slot on Panic! at the Disco's "Nothing Rhymes With Circus Tour" throughout the United States and Canada, starting November 7, 2006 in Florida and ending December 12, 2006 in New Mexico.

A documentary entitled "Dear Jack" was released on November 3, 2009 on DVD by Warner Bros, and was shown at theatrical screenings in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.^[11] The film, which chronicles McMahon's struggle with leukemia, features self-recorded footage in the hospital and is narrated by his friend Tommy Lee. The documentary was directed by Corey Moss and Josh Morrisroe, two former MTV News producers who covered McMahon's story for the channel, although much of the intensely personal footage was shot by Andrew himself. Along with the "Dear Jack" DVD Jack's Mannequin also digitally released the Dear Jack EP, with a recorded version of the song "There, There, Katie" Andrew wrote for his sister, along with three other tracks, titled "Diane, The Skyscraper," "Dear Jack" and a music box version on the pre-released song, "Swim."

Recording Label[link]

Andrew started Airport Tapes and Records recording label in 2007. The label signed Chicago rock band Treaty of Paris in September 2007. The label dissolved in late 2008.

Discography[link]

For McMahon's releases with Something Corporate, see Something Corporate's discography

For McMahon's releases with Jack's Mannequin, see Jack's Mannequin's discography

• Andrew McMahon (1999)
• Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming (2005, piano on "Halcyon Daze")
• Later Days - Catch This Epidemic... (2005, piano on "Evan's Epidemic")
• Tommy Lee - Tommyland: The Ride (2005, vocals on "Hello Again" and "I Need You")
• William Tell - You Can Hold Me Down (2007, piano on "Fairfax")
• The Spill Canvas - No Really, I'm Fine (2007, piano on "Saved")
• The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High (2008, piano on "After The Last Midtown Show")
• The Academy Is... - Lost In Pacific Time EP (2009, piano and vocals on "Sputter")
• Elliot Minor - Solaris (2009, lyrics on "Tethered")
• O.A.R. - King (2011, co-writer on "Over and Over")^[12]
• Erland - All I've Got EP (2011, producer)^[13]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dear Jack Foundation against Leukemia, grounded by Andrew McMahon and Jack's Mannequin
• Jack's Mannequin's official website

Andrew Huang

Andrew "bunnie" Huang is an American hacker, who holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT and is the author of the 2003 book Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering. He was born in 1975. Huang is also a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

Dr. Huang was the hardware lead at Chumby; his responsibilities included the design and production of chumby devices, as well as the strategic planning and ecosystem development of the broader chumby hardware platform. He has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world's first fully integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbit/s with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. bunnie has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI). He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security. Huang is also a contributing writer for MAKE magazine and a member of their technical advisory board, and had written extensively about manufacturing in China ^[1].

Huang has also used reverse-engineering techniques to reveal why certain MicroSD cards are poor in quality ^[2]

Huang was to be a witness a trial for whether Xbox modding violates the DMCA ^[3] . The case was eventually dropped ^[4].

He also created the NeTV, which was the first known public use of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 'master key'. The device uses the master key to implement a video overlay on existing HDCP-protected links, in a fashion which purportedly does not violate the DMCA ^[5] . The NeTV hardware and firmware is entirely open source^[6].

He also created the open-source hardware Safecast Geiger Counter Reference Design, as a volunteer effort in response to the Tohoku-Oki earthquake and the ensuing meltdown of Fukushima Daiichi.^[7]

Publications[link]

• Huang, Andrew (May 26, 2002) (pdf). Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the Microsoft XBoxTM Case Study. AI Memo 2002-008. http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf. Retrieved April 19, 2008. 
• An Implementation of Guarded Pointers with Tight Bounds on Segment Size, J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight, MIT AI Aries Group Technical Memo 002

• ADAM: A Decentralized Parallel Computer Architecture Featuring Fast Thread and Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware Abstraction, Andrew “bunnie” Huang, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2002

• A 10Gb/s photonic modulator and WDM MUX/DEMUX integrated with electronics in 0.13um SOI CMOS, Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International. Recipient of Lewis Winner Award for Best Paper

References[link]

1. ^ Doctorow, Cory (July 13, 2007). "Bunnie Huang's blog-series on Chinese manufacturing". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2007/07/13/bunnie_huangs_blogse.html. Retrieved May 2, 2011. 
2. ^ Doctorow, Cory (Feb 16, 2010). "Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards' crappy QA". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2010/02/16/sleuthing-uncovers-t.html. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
3. ^ Kravets, David (October 21, 2010). "Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Previous post Next post Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer From Trial". Wired. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/xbox-modder-tria/. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
4. ^ Kravets, David (December 2, 2010). "Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial". Wired. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/crippen-dismissed/. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
5. ^ Goodin, Dan (September 16, 2011). "How gizmo maker's hack outflanked copyright trolls". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/chumby_nettv_hack/. Retrieved September 17, 2011. 
6. ^ Source code links at http://kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=NeTV_Main_Page
7. ^ http://boingboing.net/2012/03/15/bunnie-huangs-open-geiger-co.html

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Andrew Solomon (born 30 October 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology who lives in New York and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression,^[1] Soviet artists,^[2] the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan,^[3] Libyan politics,^[4][5] and deaf politics.^[6] His most recent book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression^[7] won the 2001 National Book Award,^[8] was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize,^[9] and was included in The Times of London's list of one hundred best books of the decade.^[10]

Education[link]

Solomon attended the Horace Mann School, graduating cum laude in 1981.^[11] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1985, graduating magna cum laude,^[12] and later earned a Master's degree in English at Jesus College, Cambridge.^[13] He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology, at Jesus College, Cambridge, working on attachment theory under the supervision of Prof. Juliet Mitchell.^[14]

Family[link]

Solomon is the oldest son of Howard Solomon, chairman of pharmaceutical manufacturer Forest Laboratories, and Carolyn Bower Solomon. Solomon described the experience of being present at his mother's planned suicide at the end of a long battle with ovarian cancer in an article for the New Yorker;^[15] 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 Celexa in the United States.^[16]

Born and raised in New York City, as an adult Solomon became a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom. He and journalist John Habich were joined in an official civil partnership ceremony on June 30, 2007, at Althorp, the Spencer family estate and childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales.^[17][18] The couple married again on July 19, 2009, the eighth anniversary of their meeting, in Connecticut, so that their marriage would be legally recognized in the state of New York.^[19]

In 2003, Solomon and longtime friend Blaine Smith decided to have a child together; their daughter, Carolyn Blaine Smith Solomon, was born in November 2008. Mother and child live in Texas. A son, George Charles Habich Solomon, was born in April 2009, and lives in New York with Solomon and Habich, his adoptive father. Mr. Habich is also biological father of two children, Oliver and Lucy, 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.^[19]

Publications and career[link]

In 1988, Solomon began his study of Russian artists, which culminated with the publication of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost (Knopf, 1991). 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.^[20]

From 1993 to 2001, Solomon was a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.^[1][2][3][6]

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression was originally published in May 2001, and has been translated into twenty-four languages. It was named a Notable Book of 2001 by The New York Times,^[21] and was included in the American Library Association's 2002 list of Notable Books.^[22] It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction;^[8] the Books for a Better Life Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society;^[23] the 2002 Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City;^[24] Mind Book of the Year;^[25] the Lambda Literary Award for Autobiography/Memoir;^[26] and Quality Paperback Book Club's New Visions Award.

Following publication of The Noonday Demon, Solomon was honored with the Dr. Albert J. Solnit Memorial Award from Fellowship Place;^[27] the Voice of Mental Health Award from the Jed Foundation and the National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America);^[28] the Prism Award from the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association; the Erasing the Stigma Leadership Award from Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services;^[29] the Charles T. Rubey L.O.S.S. Award from the Karla Smith Foundation;^[30] and the Silvano Arieti Award from the William Alanson White Institute.^[31]

In 2003, Solomon's article, "The Amazing Life of Laura," a profile of diarist Laura Rothenberg, received the Clarion Award for Health Care Journalism, and the Angel of Awareness Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.^[32] In April 2009, his article, "Cancer & Creativity: One Chef’s True Story,"^[33] received the Bert Greene Award for Food Journalism by the International Association of Culinary Professionals;^[34] the story was also a finalist for the 11th Annual Henry R. Luce Award.^[35] Solomon's reminiscence on a friend who committed suicide won the Folio Eddie Gold Award in 2011.^[36][37]

In addition to his magazine work, Solomon has authored essays for many anthologies and books of criticism, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio's Moth Radio Hour.^[38][39]

Solomon's newest book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities, is scheduled for publication in November 2012.^[40] The writing of the book has been supported by residencies at Yaddo,^[41] MacDowell Colony,^[42] Ucross Foundation, ^[43] and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center;^[44] at MacDowell, he was the a DeWitt Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellow and later the Stanford Calderwood fellow.^[45]

Activism and philanthropy[link]

Solomon is an activist and philanthropist in LGBT rights, mental health, education and the arts.

He is founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University^[46] and a member of the boards of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force^[47] and Trans Youth Family Allies.^[48] His articles on gay marriage have appeared in Newsweek,^[19] The Advocate,^[49] and Anderson Cooper 360.^[50]

Solomon has lectured widely on depression, including at Princeton,^[51] Yale,^[52] Stanford, Harvard,^[53] MIT, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress.^[54] He is a lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College;^[55] a director of the University of Michigan Depression Center,^[56] Columbia Psychiatry, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory;^[57] a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Medical School, and the Advisory Boards of the Mental Health Policy Forum at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.^[58] In 2011, he was appointed Special Advisor on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Mental Health at the Yale School of Psychiatry.^[59] In 2008, Solomon received the Society of Biological Psychiatry's Humanitarian Award for his contributions to the field of mental health,^[60] and in 2010, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's Productive Lives Award.^[61]

Solomon's work in the arts and education includes service on the boards of the Alliance for the Arts, the World Monuments Fund,^[62] and The Alex Fund, which supports the education of Romani children.^[63] He is a member of the Chairman's Council of the Metropolitan Museum,^[64] the Library Council of the New York Public Library,^[65] and the corporation of Yaddo.^[66] He is also a fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University,^[67] and a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities^[68] and the Council on Foreign Relations.^[69]

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Non-fiction[link]

• Solomon, Andrew (1991). The Irony Tower. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ISBN 0-394-58513-5. 
• Solomon, Andrew (2001). The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. Scribner, New York. ISBN 0-684-85466-X. 

Fiction[link]

• Solomon, Andrew (1994). A Stone Boat. Faber & Faber, New York. ISBN 0-571-17240-7. 

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