Her topics have included studies of specific artists, such as Eadweard Muybridge environmental concerns language and gender a history of walking how communities recover from disaster and the impact of urban geography on creativity and quality of life.Īnd now Solnit puts herself under the microscope, tracing her ideas through her lived experiences and testing them too. In 23 monographs (some of them co-authored) and essay collections, she has demonstrated a sharp intellect and a wide-ranging curiosity. She has become one of America’s most prominent political essayists and a keen observer of modern culture. Solnit grew up in Marin County and moved to San Francisco as a teenager in the late 1970s. Rebecca Solnit’s new memoir, “Recollections of My Nonexistence,” strives to do the same, putting her most compelling observations about cultural and political power in a personal context. The great intellectual autobiographies - “ Leon Modena’s Life of Judah,” both Augustine’s and Rousseau’s “Confessions” - charted the interplay of each man’s learning and ideas and reflected on how life experiences strengthened or challenged their understandings.
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