Rebecca Solnit

(USA, 1961) is an art critic, cultural historian, political activist and author of more than 20 highly acclaimed books. She is one of the most important thinkers on the subjects of feminism, climate, art and politics. Her work is translated worldwide and has won many prizes. "I am an abused child, having grown up in a violent household in which everything female was hated," she said in a 2014 interview with Rookiemag.com. In the same year, her collection of essays Men Explain Things to Me was published. In The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness (2017), the essay "Climate Change and Violence" argues that climate change is a form of violence toward the world's population. Other well-known and translated works include Wanderlust (2000), The Mother of All Questions (2017) and Whose Story is This? (2020). In 2020 she also published Recollections of My Non-Existence, dealing with her experiences as a writer and feminist in the San Fransisco in the eighties, a society characterized by violence against and the exclusion of women.