ON CAMPUS SOON: Andrew Solomon will discuss his award-winning work “Far From The Tree” on February 10 at 6 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50. A Washington Post review called the book “a hybrid series of thematically linked oral histories, the majority of which are deeply moving about the strength of parents who display heroic energy and creativity.”

Writer, lecturer, and activist Andrew Solomon will discuss his award-winning book Far From The Tree (2012) on February 10 at 6 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50. The book is an exploration of the means by which families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and how these unusual situations can be invested with love.

Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Julie Myerson termed Far From the Tree “a passionate and affecting work that will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place. It’s a book everyone should read and … there’s no one who wouldn’t be a more imaginative and understanding parent — or human being — for having done so.”

Far From The Tree received the 2012 National Book Critics Award, the Lambda Literary Award, Media for a Just Society Award of the National Council of Crime and Delinquency, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

The founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University, he is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. His 2001 book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, explored the science and culture of clinical depression through interviews and his own experience. It was awarded the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Stafford Little Lecture Series and the Belknap Visitors in the Council of the Humanities are cosponsoring this event, which is free and open to the public. For more information on this event, please visit lectures.princeton.edu.