2/5/13
St. Lawrence Writers Series to Feature Rebecca Solnit
CANTON – A writer described by Utne Reader as one of the “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” will speak and read from her recent work as part of the St. Lawrence University’s Writers Series this month.
Rebecca Solnit will give her presentation on Thursday, February 14, at 8 p.m. in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Solnit has authored 13 books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. She has also written essays in numerous museum catalogs and anthologies.
Her honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Solnit has been an independent writer since 1988 and has also worked on environmental and human rights campaigns.
