Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit (born June 11, 1961) is a writer who lives in San Francisco, California. She has written on a variety of subjects, including the environment, politics, place, and art.
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Selected works
- Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (City Lights Books, 1990)
- Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape Wars of the American West (Sierra Club Books, 1994)
- A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland (Verso, 1997)
- Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Viking, 2000)
- Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (Verso, 2000), co-authored and photographed by Susan Schwartzenberg
- As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (University of Georgia Press, 2001)
- River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (Viking, 2003), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and of the Mark Lynton History Prize.
- Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Nation Books, 2004)
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Penguin, 2005)
- With Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers (Trinity University Press, 2005)
- After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (University of California Press, 2006) co-authored by Philip L. Fradkin, Mark Klett, and Michael Lundgren
- Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (University of California Press, 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 (Viking, 2009)
- The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle (AK Press, 2009) co-authored by David Solnit
- A California Bestiary (Heyday Books, 2010), with illustrations by Mona Caron
- Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (University of California Press, 2010)
- The Faraway Nearby (Viking Adult, 2013)
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