Event Calendar
Please join us for our winter kick-off event, "California as an Island." Rebecca Solnit, San Francisco author and visiting scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, will present her new research project based on Stanford Libraries' collection of cartographic materials that depict California as an island, and she and would like to hear your feedback.
A light spread of complimentary refreshments will be provided.
Details
Tuesday, January 22; 6:00-8:00pm
Thornton Center, Room 110
Stanford University campus
Please contact Nicholas Bauch <nbbauch@stanford.edu> with questions.
We hope to see you there!
Biography and Description
Rebecca Solnit is the author of thirteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include 2010’s "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas," along with many others. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, and is a contributing editor to Harper's. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she has made her living as an independent writer since 1988. She is currently a Maynard Parker Fellow at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West, and is co-sponsored by Stanford Libraries to research the 800 maps recently acquired showing California as an island.