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Lauren Redniss
Lauren Redniss (b. 1974) is an American artist and writer. She was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2016. Education Redniss graduated from Brown University. She earned an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts. Career Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction. ''Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout'' (2010) was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, the first work of visual non-fiction to be so recognized. ''Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future'' (2015) won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.' The ''New York Times'' called ''Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West'' (2020) "astonishing" and "virtuosic." In 2021, the ''New Yorker'' magazine wrote, "In the world of arts and letters, there isn’t anyone quite like Lauren Redniss.... Reading her work is like poring over the notebooks of a hy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Brown is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Admissions at Brown is among the most selective in the United States. In 2022, the university reported a first year acceptance rate of 5%. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England. The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
