21 Facts About Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit was born on 1961 and is an American writer and activist.

Rebecca Solnit has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

Rebecca Solnit was born in 1961 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother.

Rebecca Solnit skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the General Educational Development tests.

Rebecca Solnit returned to California to finish her college education at San Francisco State University.

Rebecca Solnit then received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and has been an independent writer since 1988.

Rebecca Solnit has worked on environmental and human rights campaigns since the 1980s, notably with the Western Shoshone Defense Project in the early 1990s, as described in her book Savage Dreams, and with antiwar activists throughout the Bush era.

Rebecca Solnit has discussed her interest in climate change and the work of 350.

Rebecca Solnit's writing has appeared in numerous publications in print and online, including The Guardian newspaper and Harper's Magazine, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column founded in 1851.

Rebecca Solnit was a regular contributor to the political blog TomDispatch and is a regular contributor to LitHub.

Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books as well as essays in numerous museum catalogs and anthologies.

Rebecca Solnit has been credited with paving the way for the coining of the word "mansplaining", which has been used to refer to instances in which men "explain" things generally to women in a condescending or patronizing way, but Rebecca Solnit did not use the term in her original essay.

Rebecca Solnit's book included illustrations from visual and performance artist Ana Teresa Fernandez.

In 2019, Rebecca Solnit rewrote a new version of Cinderella, for Haymarket Books, called Cinderella Liberator.

Rebecca Solnit's book uses Arthur Rackham's original silhouetted drawings of Cinderella.

Rebecca Solnit has received two NEA fellowships for Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Lannan literary fellowship, and a 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing on the effects of technology on the arts and humanities.

Rebecca Solnit's writing, at its worst, can be dithering and self-serious, Joan Didion without the concision and laser-guided wit.

For River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit was honored with the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and the 2004 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, which honors exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy toward a broad audience.

Rebecca Solnit was awarded Harvard's Mark Lynton History Prize in 2004 for River of Shadows.

Rebecca Solnit's book, Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises, won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.

Rebecca Solnit is the eleventh recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.