Rebecca Solnit is one of the most capaciously curious and insightful living writers, having explored subjects across a tremendous variety of fields.  What is perhaps most refreshing about her approach to her material is precisely the fearlessness with which she circumvents traditional methods

She graduates in Scenography in 2004, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan with a dissertation on photographer Jeff Wall. In the same year she gets a grant to attend courses at the Italian Institute