Rebecca Solnit

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.

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 and of the Mark Lynton History Prize.
*"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.

References

*cite web | title = Room to Roam | publisher = Columbia Journalism Review | author = Peter Terzian | date = July / August 2007 |url = http://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/room_to_roam.php | accessdate = 2007-08-17