Rebecca Solnit

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rebecca Solnit
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 24, 1961(1961-06-24)
Age	63
Birthplace	Bridgeport
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Gemini

Rebecca Solnit Biography

Rebecca Solnit is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on June 24, 1961 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. Her writings have appeared in many publications, online and print, including Harper’s Magazine and the Guardian newspaper. She is also the first woman to write the Easy Chair column, which was established in 1851. She was also a contributor to the political blog TomDispatch, and she is now a regular contributor at LitHub.

River of Shadows saw Solnit receive the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the 2004 Sally Hacker Prize of the Society for the History of Technology. These awards recognize exceptional scholarship that extends beyond the academy to a wider audience. In 2004, Solnit received the Harvard’s Mark Lynton Historical Prize for River of Shadows. Solnit won the 2015-16 Corlis Benefideo Award for Creative Cartography from the North American Cartographic Information Society. Solnit’s book Call Them By their True Names: American Crises was the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. She was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2019.

Solnit is the author of seventeen books as well as essays in numerous museum catalogs and anthologies. Her 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster began as an essay called “The Uses of Disaster: Notes on Bad Weather and Good Government” published by Harper’s magazine the day that Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. It was partially inspired by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which Solnit described as “a remarkable occasion…a moment when everyday life ground to a halt and people looked around and hunkered down”. In a conversation with filmmaker Astra Taylor for BOMB magazine, Solnit summarized the radical theme of A Paradise Built in Hell: “What happens in disasters demonstrates everything an anarchist ever wanted to believe about the triumph of civil society and the failure of institutional authority.”

In 2014, Haymarket Books published Men Explain Things to Me, a collection of short essays on feminism, including one on the phenomenon of “mansplaining.” Solnit has been credited with paving the way for the coining of the word “mansplaining,” which has been used to refer to instances in which men explain things (generally toward women) in a condescending and/or patronizing way, but Solnit did not use it in the original essay. Solnit’s book included illustrations from visual and performance artist Ana Teresa Fernández.

Solnit has been involved in environmental and human rights campaigns ever since the 1980s. She was a part of the Western Shoshone Defense Project (as described in her book Savage Dreams) and worked with antiwar activists during the Bush era. She spoke about her interest in climate change, the work of 350.org, the Sierra Club, as well as women’s rights and violence against women.

Rebecca Solnit Net Worth

Rebecca Solnit is one of the richest Art Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rebecca Solnit 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

American writer Rebecca Solnit was born in 1961. She has written about feminism, politics, art, place, and the environment.

Solnit was the daughter of a Jewish father, and an Irish Catholic mother. She was born in Bridgeport in Connecticut to Solnit and her family. In 1966, she moved to Novato in California where she grew. I was a little battered child. She recalled her childhood in a violent home where all things female and feminine were hated. She dropped out of high school and enrolled in an alternative junior high within the public school system. This helped her to complete tenth grade. After passing the General Educational Development exams, she was able to graduate from high school. She enrolled in junior college after that. She went to Paris for her studies at age 17. To finish her college education, she returned to California at San Francisco State University. In 1984, she received a master’s in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been an independent journalist since 1988.

Solnit has received two NEA fellowships for Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, a Lannan literary fellowship, and a 2004 Wired Rave Award for writing on the effects of technology on the arts and humanities. In 2010 Utne Reader magazine named Solnit as one of the “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”. Her The Faraway Nearby (2013) was nominated for a National Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Rebecca Ranked on the list of most popular Art Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rebecca Solnit celebrates birthday on June 24 of every year.

What did Rebecca Solnit do?

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, most recently The Mother Of All Questions.

Is Rebecca Solnit a philosopher?

For more than two decades, Rebecca Solnit has been a favorite of the literati: penning exquisite essays that move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.

When was Rebecca Solnit born?

1961 (age 61 years)

Who wrote Men explain things to me?

Rebecca Solnit

Where is Rebecca Solnit from?

Bridgeport, CT