Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is an American writer and activist who has written on feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Her books include River of Shadows, which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and A Paradise Built in Hell, a study of how communities respond to disaster. She also wrote The Faraway Nearby, a wide-ranging memoir, and Men Explain Things to Me, a set of essays on feminism and women's writing. Her other titles include A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Orwell's Roses, and Wanderlust.