Charles Solomon (animation historian)


Charles Solomon is an American animation historian, author, and film critic who has written multiple books about Disney animation and other animated works.

Education

Solomon attended University of California Los Angeles for his bachelor's and master's degrees in European cultural history.

Accolades

Enchanted Drawings, Solomon's 1989 book on the history of American animation, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was also nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award.

Film criticism

Solomon has written about the subject for NPR, Variety, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
Solomon, writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1986, listed his picks for the best animated films of the 1980s:

Selected bibliography