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  • Lauren Redniss

    Associate Professor of Illustration

    Email
    rednissl@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    Parsons Faculty Hotseat

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    Lauren Redniss

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    Lauren Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Her book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future, won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her previous book, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. Her writing and drawing has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a New America Fellow, a fellow the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. 

    The National Book Foundation wrote the following in its citation of Radioactive, the first visual book to be named a finalist for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction:

    “Redniss’ achievement is a celebration of the essential power of books to inform, charm, and transport. In marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction.”


    Recent Publications

    Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (Random House, 2020)

    Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (Random House, 2015)

    Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (HarperCollins, 2010)

    Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last LIving Star of the ZIegfeld Follies (HarperCollins, 2006)


    Research Interests

    visual journalism, drawing, graphic novels, printmaking


    Awards And Honors

    John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 2016

    PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, 2016

    New America Foundation Fellow, 2016-2017

    Artist-in Residence, American Museum of Natural History, 2013

    Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012

    Finalist, National Book Award, 2011

    New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers Fellowship, 2008-2009


    Portfolio

    http://www.laurenredniss.com/


    Current Courses

    Experimental Children's Book
    PSAM 2706, Fall 2024

    Language and Letterform
    PUIL 2070, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Topics
    PUIL 3300, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Senior Thesis 2
    PUIL 4116, Spring 2024

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