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Press: Audio & Video


Oct 2013

Audio: TED Radio Hour: Can Your Child’s Identity Shape Yours?

Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents and how the experience shaped the identities of both parent and child.

Oct 2013

Video: Andrew Solomon on Winning the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Award For Nonfiction

Andrew Solomon, author of Far From The Tree, shares what the honor of winning the 2013 award for nonfiction means to him.

Oct 2013

Video: Andrew Solomon Supports NAMI-NYC’s “I Will Listen” Campaign

1 in 4 Americans are impacted by mental illness. Make a promise to listen.

Sep 2013

Video: Andrew Solomon at the 2013 National Book Festival

Andrew Solomon appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival, September 21, 2013.

Sep 2013

Audio: New America NYC: A Conversation About Family, Difference and Acceptance

Andrew Solomon and Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex, discuss the themes of Far from the Tree: Families, Children, and the Search for Identity at this New America NYC event.

Sep 2013

Audio: The Sound of Ideas: Some More Different Than Others

An interview with Andrew Solomon and Ohio parents Frank Groh-Wargo and Lisa Bachman about the experience of parenting children who fall “far from the tree.”

Sep 2013

Video: 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners were honored in Cleveland on September 12, 2013, at a ceremony hosted by the Cleveland Foundation and emceed by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Sep 2013

Video: Andrew Solomon Lectures at Gallaudet University

Andrew Solomon discusses Deaf culture as part of Gallaudet University’s Sesquicentennial Lecture Series.

Sep 2013

Audio: The Diane Rehm Show: Understanding Gender Nonconforming Children

Guest host Susan Page talks to psychiatrist Dr. Edgardo Menvielle, authors Lori Duron and Andrew Solomon, and transgender advocate Allyson Robinson, about children who are biologically one gender but who identify as the other.

Aug 2013

Audio: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Transgender In America

Host Tom Ashbrook talks to Deirdre McCloskey, Ryan Sallans, Andrew Solomon, and callers to the show, about the lives and reality of transgender people in the United States.