Rebecca Solnit Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is an activist, historian and writer who lives in San Francisco. Her twelfth book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, came out in 2009. The previous eleven include 2007’s Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art; River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A contributing editor to Harper’s, she frequently writes for the political site Tomdispatch.com.


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2013

    Publication

     Rebecca Solnit releases new book called The Faraway Nearby

  • 2011

    Residency

    Solnit is the Eminent Writer in Residence in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program in Creative Writing

  • 2010

    Residency

    Solnit receives residency at University of Wyoming Laramie

  • 2009

    Fellowship

    Solnit receives NEA Literature Fellowship

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