The Cost of Incivility: Youth Suicide and BeyondMaster ClassIn-Person

Andrew Solomon is a writer on politics, culture, medicine, and psychology; a Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center; an adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College; a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale Medical School; a distinguished associate of the Centre for Family Research at Cambridge University, and the former President of PEN America. His TED talks have been viewed over 25 million times. His book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity received the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction as well as more than twenty-five other national and international awards; it has been published in twenty-four languages. The New York Times listed it as one of the hundred best books of the twenty-first century. He is also the author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, revised and reissued in 2015, which won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; it has been published in thirty languages. He is currently writing a book on youth suicide, drawing from New Yorker stories he published in 2022 and 2024, reflecting on the science of suicide studies and also the larger crises of purpose and identity that underlie the modern devaluing of our shared humanity. As a trustee of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he chairs the Impact and Engagement Committee and serves on the Executive Committee, and the New York Public Library, where he is a member of the Program and Policy Committee, he has helped to address the issues posed by the meeting of technology and the humanities. He also serves on the board of Human Rights Campaign (HRC); the artists’ community Yaddo; PEN America; and The Alex Fund, which supports the education of Romani children. He lives in New York, Rhinebeck, and London with his husband and son; he also has a daughter with a college friend.