Wanderlust: A History of Walking (50 page)

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Rebecca Solnit is the author of
Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era
;
Savage Dreams: A Journey Through the Landscape Wars of the American West
;
A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
;
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
; and
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
. She has written about visual art, public space, landscape, and environmental issues for a variety of magazines, and for museums ranging from New York's Whitney to the Denver Art Museum. She lives in San Francisco.