The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon5/24/2023 The update was mentioned during an NPR Fresh Air interview of Solomon and a New York Times article he authored. Updated edition Ī new edition was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 2015 that added a chapter about new treatments for depression. In 2019, the memoir was ranked 23rd on The Guardian 's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. In 2002 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The Noonday Demon received positive critical response, being described by The New York Times as "a book of remarkable scope, depth, breadth, and vitality." The book was honored in 2001 with the National Book Award for Nonfiction Īnd the Lambda Literary Award for autobiography or memoir. The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon won the 2001 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. It is an outgrowth of Solomon's 1998 New Yorker article on depression. The Noonday Demon examines the personal, cultural, and scientific aspects of depression through Solomon's published interviews with depression sufferers, doctors, research scientists, politicians, and pharmaceutical researchers. It is indeed an atlas of depression, sensitively chronicling the illness’s characteristics, social and cultural history, modes of treatment, and prospects. There was a later paperback under the Touchstone imprint. Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon is immensely readable and should be universally useful. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression is a memoir written by Andrew Solomon and first published under the Scribner imprint of New York's Simon & Schuster publishing house in 2001.
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