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Barbara Probst Solomon (born December 3, 1928) is an American author, essayist and journalist. Her published works include two novels, two volumes of memoirs, and a book of collected essays. Solomon is the United States cultural correspondent for Spain's "newspaper-of-record", ''El País'' of Madrid. Most recently, Solomon has been awarded the 25th Francisco Cerecedo Prize by the Association of European Journalists in Spain (). The prize, which comes with an award of $36,000, is the most prestigious journalism prize in that country, and Solomon is the first North American to receive it. She accepted the award from Prince Felipe at a gala in Madrid. In January 2008, Solomon was part of President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero "dream team" of 14 international experts in Madrid, a team that included Professors Joseph Stiglitz, Jeremy Rifkin and Nicholas Stern. In 2007 Solomon received the United Nations/Women Together Award which pays tribute "to a group of women who share...a commitment to their work, and a devotion to making the world a better place." (). She is a member of the Graduate Faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, and currently serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the International University Menendez Pelayo in Spain (). ==Biography== Born in New York City, Solomon is unusual for a writer from her generation in that her interests, from the beginning, were global. A graduate of the Dalton School in New York City, after World War II she bypassed college in America to go to Europe. At the Sorbonne, she met those French and Spanish students who were later to become the young intellectual rebels so significant is shaping contemporary Europe. In 1948, Solomon and Barbara Mailer (the sister of Norman Mailer) aided Paco Benet in the rescue of two Spanish students being held in the Franco gulag near Madrid, where they were used as slave labor to build Francisco Franco's future tomb, The Valley of the Fallen/Valle de los Caídos. One of the students, Nicolas Sanchez Albornoz () was the son of the historian Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, the president of the Spanish Republic in Exile. Solomon and Paco Benet, brother of the Madrid novelist Juan Benet, spent five years together, mainly in Paris, where Benet and Solomon edited the resistance magazine ''Peninsula'' together. When Solomon returned to New York she enrolled in the School of General Studies at Columbia University (), where she received her BS with honors in Spanish in 1960. Solomon's father, J. Anthony Probst, was Woodrow Wilson's youngest campaign manager before he served in the United States Army during World War I. He was gassed in the trenches while stationed in France as a private, resulting in a three-year stay in an American army hospital there. Probst's cousin, the Austrian writer Joseph Roth, was a soldier serving on the German/Austrian side. Probst returned to New York after the war to become a successful lawyer. Later he bought the Self Winding Clock Company () from Standard Oil, which was affiliated with Western Union. Solomon's mother, Frances Kurke Probst, worked as a middy blouse model during World War I; after her marriage she attended Columbia University and became an artist. She was a student of Julio de Diego (May 9, 1900 - August 22, 1979) (). Her art and work were much influenced by that of Kurt Schwitters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Probst Solomon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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