She’s also written on all kinds of other subjects, which include: art, the environment, feminism, politics, and place. She’s discussed her interest in climate change as well as the work of the Sierra Club and 350.org, and in women’s rights, particularly violence against women. Solnit’s worked on human rights and environmental campaigns since the eighties, notably with the Western Shoshone Defense Project during the early nineties, as described in “Savage Dreams”, one of her books, and with antiwar activists all throughout the Bush era. Then she got her master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, and she has been an independent writer since the year 1988.
After that, she enrolled in junior college.Īt the age of seventeen, she went to study in Paris, and returned to study in California to finish up her college education at San Francisco State University. Rebecca skipped high school entirely, enrolling in an alternative junior high school in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed General Educational Development tests. Rebecca’s also contributed to Harper’s Magazine, where she’s the first woman to write regularly the Easy Chair column in the year 1851, and she contributes to the political blog TomDispatch. Rebecca’s a product of the California public education system from the time she began attending kindergarten until graduate school, she’s a columnist at the Guardian and is a regular contributor to Literary Hub. She grew up in an incredibly violent house where everything that was female and feminine and her gender was hated. Rebecca Solnit was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the year 1961 to an Irish Catholic mom and a Jewish dad and in the year 1966 her family moved Novato, California, where she grew up. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A MemoirĮmbrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays (With: ) Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminismsĭrowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness The Battle of the Story of the Battle of SeattleĪ Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Motion Studies: time, space and Eadweard Muybridge River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American UrbanismĪs Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American WestĪ Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era
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