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Rebecca Solnit is an American art historian, journalist, author and writer, born on 24 June 1961 in Bridgeport. She was educated at San Francisco State University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her notable work is Men Explain Things to Me.
She has been credited with 74 works in total, including Orwell's Roses, Recollections of My Non-Existence, Critical Geography and Field Guide to Getting Lost.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961-06-24
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Cinderella Liberator
- Os homens explicam tudo para mim
- Orwell's Roses
- Recollections of My Non-Existence
- Critical Geography
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Key facts
- Born
- 1961 (age 64 – 65), Bridgeport , Connecticut , U.S.
- Occupation
- Author memoirist essayist
- Education
- American University of Paris (attended), San Francisco State University ( BA ), University of California, Berkeley ( MA )
- Subject
- Cultural history feminism environmentalism memoir
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Notable works
- River of Shadows The Faraway Nearby A Paradise Built in Hell Men Explain Things to Me
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rebecca
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bridgeport
- Occupation
- essayist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- rebeccasolnit.net
- Image
- Rebecca Solnit cropped.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1961-06-26
- Commons category
- Rebecca Solnit
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Encyclopedic overview
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.
Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including River of Shadows, which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; A Paradise Built in Hell, originally published in 2009 and later revised in 2020, which charts altruistic community responses to disaster; The Faraway Nearby, a wide-ranging memoir published in 2013; and Men Explain Things to Me, a collection of essays on feminism and women's writing first published in 2014.
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