Rebecca Solnit
Born
in San Francisco, California, The United States
June 24, 1961
Website
Genre
Influences
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Men Explain Things to Me
89 editions
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2014
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
37 editions
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2005
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Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
42 editions
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2004
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The Mother of All Questions
39 editions
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2017
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
31 editions
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2020
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The Faraway Nearby
30 editions
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2013
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Wanderlust: A History of Walking
53 editions
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2001
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Orwell's Roses
21 editions
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2021
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
25 editions
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2018
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
25 editions
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2009
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“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.”
― Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
― Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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