Jonathan Solomon

Jonathan Solomon was born into optimism of the post-World War II baby boom. His formal education began at the Sts. Phillip and James parish school, after which he later entered his neighborhood's public elementary school. He spent most of his life in New Castle, PA, residing within a few blocks of his place of birth, not too far from the Ohio line. There, his parents were also born, and there they all soaked in the same Scotch-Irish Calvinism distilled by the city's public schools, pre-Madeline Murray O'Hare. There he practiced law for 48 years. He and Nanette Kaplan Solomon, a concert pianist, have been married since 1978. On October 27, 2018, they had just moved to Pittsburgh, where they live in the late Michael Benedum's bedroom, less than a mile down Woodland Road from Tree of Life Synagogue. Their son , Ben, tends bar in Greenwich Village and lives on the Upper West Side. Their daughter, Rachel, a photographer, died a resident of Parma Heights, OH. Some of the poems are inspired by her photos included in the book.