Robert C. Solomon (b. 1942) Love Stories LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Robert C. Solomon (b. 1942)  Solomon was born in Detroit. His father was a lawyer, his mother, an artist. After earning a B.A. (1963) at the University of Pennsylvania, he moved to the University of Michigan for an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967). He has held several teaching positions at such schools as Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Pittsburgh. In 1972, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin where he is now a professor of philosophy. His many books include The Passions (1976), Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor (1981), Above the Bottom Line: An Introduction to Business Ethics (with Kristine R. Hansen) (1983), A Passion for Justice (1990), and the source of the essay reprinted in this text, About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times (1988). He is also a published songwriter. Responding to the standard questionnaire that asked him his religion, he wrote: "Peter Pantheist." As his avocations he listed "Travel, food, love, animals, life."