abstract:Deborah Solomon (born August 9, 1957, New York City) is a liberal American art critic, journalist and biographer. She writes primarily for The New York Times and her weekly column, "Questions For," ran in The New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011.
Solomon quotes the blind writer Deborah Kent, who was dismayed to find that her own mother and her husband blanched at the idea of her giving birth to a blind kid.