Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is an American writer, journalist, and essayist. She writes on feminism, environmental justice, and human rights among other topics. Some of her books include: Wanderlust, Hope in the Dark, and Men Explain Things to Me.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, a British writer, is one of the most famous of the modernist writers. Solnit cites her work, especially the idea of the Angel in the House.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich is an American poet and feminist, known for her feminist and lesbian poetry.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov is a Russian-émigré American author who wrote the novel Lolita, which, as Solnit points out in “80 Books No Woman Should Read,” is the story of a man serially raping a child.

Emma Sulkowicz

Emma Sulkowicz is a student at Columbia University who carried her mattress around with her as an act of protest for how the university...