She then received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and has been an independent writer since 1988. She returned to California to finish her college education at San Francisco State University. When she was 17, she went to study in Paris. Thereafter she enrolled in junior college. She skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the General Educational Development tests.
I grew up in a really violent house where everything feminine and female and my gender was hated," she has said of her childhood. In 1966, her family moved to Novato, California, where she grew up. Solnit was born in 1961 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer.
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