Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is the author of seventeen books, including ''River of Shadows'', which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; ''A Paradise Built in Hell'', from 2009, which charts community responses to disaster; ''The Faraway Nearby'', a wide-ranging memoir published in 2013; and ''Men Explain Things to Me'', a collection of essays on feminism and women's writing first published in 2014. Provided by Wikipedia