Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is an American writer, historian, and activist, the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and urban history, popular power, ecology, and art. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, she was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her MA in journalism from UC Berkeley. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (2018) won the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. Solnit has been influential across many fields: A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005), Men Explain Things to Me (2014), and Hope in the Dark (2004) have all been widely read and frequently cited. Her landmark essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' (2008) is widely credited with influencing the vocabulary of the #MeToo era. She is also the author of A Paradise Built in Hell (2009), examining how communities respond to disaster, and Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000). Solnit is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other publications and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. She has received the Lannan Literary Award, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She lives in San Francisco, California.