Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a writer/essayist from San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art. ^[1] Solnit has received many awards for her writing: a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship for Literature and the 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing.^{[citation needed]}

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

[edit] Works (selected)

• Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists (1991)
• 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 and of the Mark Lynton History Prize.^[2]
• 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)
• News from Nowhere: Iceland's polite dystopia. Harper's Magazine. October 2008.
• A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster (2009)

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