 Solomon's book "" won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in "The Times" list of one hundred best books of the decade.Honors awarded to "" include the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Media for a Just Society Award of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Wellcome Book Prize.Solomon is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and a past President of PEN American Center.