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Rebecca Solnit
Author · 34 books
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and 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). Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is scheduled to release in March, 2020. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.

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Recollections of My Nonexistence book cover

Recollections of My Nonexistence

A Memoir

2020

Weaving The Fabric Of The World With Our Stories book cover

Weaving The Fabric Of The World With Our Stories

2025

A Book of Migrations book cover

A Book of Migrations

1997

Orwell's Roses book cover

Orwell's Roses

2021

A Field Guide to Getting Lost book cover

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

2005

Call Them by Their True Names book cover

Call Them by Their True Names

American Crises

2018

Infinite City book cover

Infinite City

A San Francisco Atlas

2010

Waking Beauty book cover

Waking Beauty

2022

Storming the Gates of Paradise book cover

Storming the Gates of Paradise

Landscapes for Politics

2007

Nonstop Metropolis book cover

Nonstop Metropolis

A New York City Atlas

2016

Yol Aşkı - Yürümenin Tarihi book cover

Yol Aşkı - Yürümenin Tarihi

2025

The Mother of All Questions book cover

The Mother of All Questions

2017

Hollow City book cover

Hollow City

The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

2001

The Flood book cover

The Flood

2018

Whose Story Is This? book cover

Whose Story Is This?

Old Conflicts, New Chapters

2019

Not Too Late book cover

Not Too Late

Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

2023

Wanderlust book cover

Wanderlust

A History of Walking

2001

Unfathomable City book cover

Unfathomable City

A New Orleans Atlas

2013

No Straight Road Takes You There book cover

No Straight Road Takes You There

Essays for Uneven Terrain

2025

As Eve Said to the Serpent book cover

As Eve Said to the Serpent

On Landscape, Gender, and Art

2001

Drowned River book cover

Drowned River

The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado

2018

Secret Exhibition book cover

Secret Exhibition

Six California Artists of the Cold War Era

1991

Cinderella Liberator book cover

Cinderella Liberator

2019

River of Shadows book cover

River of Shadows

Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

2003

Hope in the Dark book cover

Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

2004

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness book cover

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

2014

Savage Dreams book cover

Savage Dreams

A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

1994

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

2017

The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle book cover

The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle

2008

A Paradise Built in Hell book cover

A Paradise Built in Hell

The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

2009

Men Explain Things to Me book cover

Men Explain Things to Me

2014

A California Bestiary book cover

A California Bestiary

1987

Inside Out book cover

Inside Out

Art by Stefan Kurten & Essay by Rebecca Solnit

2006

The Faraway Nearby book cover

The Faraway Nearby

2013

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