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Rebecca Solnit

1961 - Today

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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, originally published in 2009 and later revised in 2020, which charts altruistic 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Rebecca Solnit is the 5,918th most popular writer (up from 6,015th in 2024), the 9,969th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,839th in 2019) and the 725th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Rebecca Solnit ranks 5,918 out of 7,302. Before her are John Connolly, Alfred Capus, Susan Glaspell, Michael Scott, Fatima Meer, and Walter Moers. After her are Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Samuel Benchetrit, Nikolay Rubtsov, Whittaker Chambers, Brigitte Kronauer, and Jules Roy.

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Among people born in 1961, Rebecca Solnit ranks 399. Before her are Tiina Lillak, Nancy Travis, Andrea Carnevale, Daniel Johnston, Evan Handler, and Sugao Kambe. After her are Jaroslav Šilhavý, Roberto Cabañas, David Choquehuanca, Éric Dupond-Moretti, Dietmar Woidke, and Aram Sargsyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rebecca Solnit ranks 9,971 out of 20,380. Before her are Susan Glaspell (1876), Ezra Miller (1992), Randy Edelman (1947), Aileen Pringle (1895), Judee Sill (1944), and Ruth Hussey (1911). After her are Chad Channing (1967), Larry the Cable Guy (1963), Christopher Lasch (1932), Jessica Simpson (1980), Ira Aldridge (1807), and Donald Gibb (1954).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Rebecca Solnit ranks 725. Before her are John Keel (1930), Daniel Goldhagen (1959), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830), Julie Garwood (1946), Winston Churchill (1871), and Susan Glaspell (1876). After her are Whittaker Chambers (1901), David S. Goyer (1965), Conrad Aiken (1889), Archibald MacLeish (1892), Marc Connelly (1890), and Theodore Roethke (1908).

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