Collaborating Editor at Harper Magazine, where she regularly writes the" Easy Chair "section, Rebecca Solnit has written on a wide variety of topics, including the environment, politics and art. Since the 1980s she has worked on numerous campaigns. human rights - like the Western Shoshone Defense Project in the early 1990s, which he describes in his book Savage Dreams - and with antiwar activists during the Bush era.

His best-known books include A Paradise Built in Hell (2009), in which he reports on the extraordinary communities that arise after certain disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, a fact that he had already analyzed in his essay "The uses of disasters : Notes on Bad Weather and Good Governance », published by Harper the same day the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. In a conversation with filmmaker Astra Taylor for Bomb magazine, Solnit summed up the theme of his book: "What happens in disasters demonstrates the triumph of civil society and the failure of institutional authority." Solnit has received two NEA Literature Scholarships, a Guggenheim Scholarship, a Lannan Scholarship, and in 2004 the Wired Rave Award for writing on the effects of technology on the arts and humanities. In 2010 Reader Magazine named her "one of the 25 visionaries who are changing the world."