Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian and activist
Rebecca Solnit is an American writer, historian and activist who has written on feminism, the environment, politics and art.
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American Born 1961 in Bridgeport, United States
Influenced by Virginia Woolf
About Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit was born in San Francisco in 1961. She has written about place, memory, hope and the history of walking, and she has contributed to the Guardian newspaper. Men Explain Things To Me gathers essays touching on feminism and on women as writers, and it first appeared in 2014. Her book River of Shadows received the 2004 criticism prize from the National Book Critics Circle.