Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit was an American art historian, journalist, writer, environmentalist and essayist (born 1961). She was born at Bridgeport.
Rebecca Solnit in brief
- Born
- 1961
- Known for
- journalist,writer,environmentalist,essayist,activist,historian
- Place of birth
- Bridgeport
Overview
Born at Bridgeport in 1961.
Work and production
Works recorded as notable number 6: Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West, A Paradise Built in Hell, Men Explain Things to Me, River of Shadows, The Faraway Nearby and Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
Recognition and collections
Rebecca Solnit received Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.
Wellcome Collection: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Rebecca Solnit on the Essay, The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, 2022. Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby, Forma de Vida, 2015. Solnit, Rebecca, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Wild associations: Rebecca Solnit, Maggie Nelson and the lyric essay, TEXT, 2017. Rebecca Solnit. River of Shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West., Transatlantica, 2006. O corpo da mulher como acumulação de sabedoria e resistência no poema “Virgem ”, de Luiza Romão, Raído, 2018. Una caminata por el libro-galería: Nueve pintores mexicanos de Juan García Ponce. Imagen autoral y trabajo colaborativo, Nuevas Poligrafías, Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada, 2022. An Analysis of Gender, Violence, and Fragmented Selves in Freshwater (2018) by Akwaeke Emezi, Advances in Women’s Studies, 2026. Unarchived women: testimony, violence and female condition in Our lady of the Nile, from Scholastique Mukasonga, Travessias, 2018. A tarefa dos feminismos de nomear as violências contra as mulheres, Intellèctus, 2026. O silêncio-voz: as mulheres de Neighbours, De Lília Momplé, Outra Travessia, 2021. A Review of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit., Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020.
Digitised editions and texts
12 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
Ces hommes qui m'expliquent la vie (2018) — Internet Archive. Book Talk: Rebecca Solnit With Jeff Chang Discussing "The Beginning Comes After The End" (2026) — Internet Archive. Solnit, R.-De quién es Esta Historia. Viejos Conflictos, Capítulos Nuevos, Barcelona, 2023. (2023) — Internet Archive. Solnit, R.-Un Paraíso en el Infierno. Las Extraordinarias Comunidades que surgen en el Desastre, Madrid, 2020. (2020) — Internet Archive. River of Shadows (2003) — Internet Archive. Solnit, R.-Wanderlust. Una Historia del Caminar, Madrid, 2020. (2020) — Internet Archive. A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster — Internet Archive. The West: Machine Media — Internet Archive. As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art (2003) — Internet Archive. Solnit, R.-Recuerdos de mi Inexistencia, Barcelona, 2021. (2021) — Internet Archive. Cabeza De Vaca (2005) — Internet Archive. MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME (2015) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 26 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Rebecca Solnit studied at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. the recorded working language is English.
Membership is recorded of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Works named in the authority record are Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West, A Paradise Built in Hell, Men Explain Things to Me, River of Shadows, The Faraway Nearby and Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
Chronology
- 1961Rebecca Solnit born at Bridgeport.
- 2003River of Shadows digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2018Ces hommes qui m'expliquent la vie digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2020Solnit, R.-Un Paraíso en el Infierno. Las Extraordinarias Comunidades que surgen en el Desastre, Madrid, 2020. digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2020Solnit, R.-Wanderlust. Una Historia del Caminar, Madrid, 2020. digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2023Solnit, R.-De quién es Esta Historia. Viejos Conflictos, Capítulos Nuevos, Barcelona, 2023. digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2026Book Talk: Rebecca Solnit With Jeff Chang Discussing "The Beginning Comes After The End" digitised by Internet Archive.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
“Rebecca Solnit”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Consult the sourcereference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
Wikidata, structured authority record Q2134968: Rebecca Solnit
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