Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit is a writer/essayist born in 1961 from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art.

Her writing has appeared in numerous publications in print and online.

[edit] Works (selected)

  • Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West (1994)
  • Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (1998)
  • Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (2002) co-authored by Susan Schwartzenberg
  • Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2002)
  • River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
  • As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (2003)
  • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2006)
  • After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (2006) co-authored by Philip L. Fradkin, Mark Klett, and Michael Lundgren
  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2006)
  • Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007)

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