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Author Description 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 <em>Call Them By Their True Names</em> (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), <em>Cinderella Liberator</em>, <em>Men Explain Things to Me</em>, <em>The Mother of All Questions</em>, and <em>Hope in the Dark</em>, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, <em>The Faraway Nearby</em>, <em>A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster</em>, <em>A Field Guide to Getting Lost</em>, <em>Wanderlust: A History of Walking</em>, and <em>River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West</em> (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Her forthcoming memoir, <em>Recollections of My Nonexistence</em>, 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 <em>Guardian</em> and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.

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