Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnitis an American writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including the environment, politics, place, and art. Solnit is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, where bi-monthly she writes the magazine's "Easy Chair" essay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
natural disaster
There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.
stories landscape decided
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.
grateful thinking people
I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.
what-matters style pleasure
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
reading age stories
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.