Rebecca Solnit

About

Rebecca Solnit is an activist, historian and writer who lives in San Francisco. Her work deals with landscape, cityscapes, cultural geographies, the environment, place, time, speed, memory, photography, metaphor, counter-narratives and the uses of story. Her twelfth book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, came out in August 2009. Previous books include Storming the Gates of Paradise (2007); A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A contributing editor to Harper's, she frequently writes for the political site Tomdispatch.com, and has worked on antinuclear, antiwar, environmental, indigenous land rights and human rights campaigns.