Rebecca Solnit
American writer and activist; author of Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark.
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- Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist, born in 1961.
- She writes on feminism, the environment, politics, place and art.
- River of Shadows won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
- Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell (2009), The Faraway Nearby (2013) and Men Explain Things to Me (2014).
- She was the first woman to write Harper's Magazine's Easy Chair column regularly.
Key facts
- Born
- 1961, Bridgeport, Connecticut1
- Education
- San Francisco State University; MA in journalism, UC Berkeley (1984)1
- Books
- Seventeen, including Wanderlust, River of Shadows, A Paradise Built in Hell, The Faraway Nearby, Men Explain Things to Me1
- Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, River of Shadows (2004)1
- Writing
- The Guardian; Harper's Magazine (first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column)1
- Newsletter
- Meditations in an Emergency2
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