Oak Flat: A Fight For Sacred Land In The American West

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Brilliant . . . Astonishing . . . Virtuosic. . . Redniss defies our desire for black-and-white dichotomies, for heroes and villains . . . [Oak Flat] establishes Redniss as a master storyteller of a new order.”

— ELIZA GRISWOLD, The New York Times

“Redniss has a flair for weaving deep reporting and visual storytelling into immersive and engrossing nonfiction. Oak Flat is full of sensitive portraits—in both words and vivid drawings [that] capture the surreal beauty of the region.”
The Wall Street Journal

“Redniss creates books like no one else’s. . . Oak Flat is a fervent and beautiful argument. . . . It is, one might hope, proof of art’s purpose: to expand minds, to promote beauty, and to make change.”
NPR  

“Redniss offers herself as a witness, giving life to the people and place through straightforward dialogue and rich, sweeping illustrations. It’s a vital read and a staggering work of art.”
BuzzFeed

“Artistically and thematically profound . . . As a work of advocacy, the book is compelling and convincing; as a work of art, it is masterful.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Redniss creates a stunningly holistic and deeply moving tale of how we value and live on the earth for better and for worse.”
Booklist (starred review)

“In Oak Flat, Lauren Redniss has produced a supernova: a dazzling blend of deep reporting, sublime artwork, haunting dialogue, and descriptive writing that has the crystalline precision of a prose poem…A vivid, searing, indelible act of witness.”
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain

Oak Flat left me stunned…Rarely is a book simultaneously so heartfelt and so brilliant.”
DAVID TREUER, New York Times bestselling author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Lauren Redniss’s Oak Flat unfolds and unfolds, moving swiftly and seamlessly from the cosmological to the geological to the intimate regions of the human heart. It tackles a painful, important subject with grace, rendering everyone and everything it investigates with uncommon intimacy, curiosity, and dignity.”
MAGGIE NELSON, author of The Argonauts

“Blending journalism, politics, poetry, and art is a literary high-wire act. Lauren Redniss is one of the few artists who can do it. Oak Flat is a be- witching and mesmerizing book.”
MARJANE SATRAPI, author of Persepolis

“Artistically and thematically profound . . . As a work of advocacy, the book is compelling and convincing; as a work of art, it is masterful.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Gorgeous, devastating, and hopeful.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Enthralling…deeply moving.”
Booklist (starred review)


Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

WINNER PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD

“Eerily beautiful . . .immersive and disorienting . . . Stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.”
The New York Times

“Redniss's work is . . . some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world.”
— The Telegraph

 “Lauren Redniss’s stunning cultural history of the weather is thrillingly original…Redniss’s book reinvents graphic storytelling.”
The Guardian

“Magical . . . That is what Redniss has done, shown us how human beings live with nature.”
New York Times Book Review

“Science writer Lauren Redniss takes us on a most meditative, enchanting, and perilous journey via her prose and with her stunning artwork . . .Her unique gifts as a reporter, storyteller, adventurer, and artist put this book in a category by itself . . . I predict Thunder & Lightning will be considered a classic.” 
New York Journal of Books

“Lauren Redniss's Thunder & Lightning is such a strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent. It's the way you wish science would always be taught -- with a mix of stories and facts, legend and hard science.”
— Dave Eggers

“Beautiful and totally original.”
— Elizabeth Kolbert


Radioactive: A Tale Of Love And Fallout

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION FINALIST

ADAPTED FOR MAJOR MOTION PICTURE (2019, Dir. Marjane Satrapi)

“A beautiful, heartbreaking work of art.”
— Wired

“Original and brilliant.”
The New Yorker

”[Radioactive] is a deeply unusual and forceful thing to have in your hands . . . The electricity . . . derives from the friction between Ms. Redniss’s text and her ambitious and spooky art.”
New York Times

“[Redniss] continues to defy the usual categories.”
The Economist

“Stunningly beautiful . . . Radioactive is a rare cross-pollination of art and science, the kind of storytelling that makes us care about stories.”
The Atlantic

 “It is difficult to compare Radioactive to other works from any written or visual tradition, except perhaps another book of Redniss’s own.”
Wall Street Journal

“Unforgettable . . .linguistically rich and visually captivating.”
Nature

“One does not read the book, one enters into it—an experience somewhere between walking into a cutting-edge museum exhibition and seeing into the mind of an artist’s imaginings.”
Science

“Deft narrative and vivid illustrations . . . create a thoroughly modern account of the scientific and romantic passions of the Curies, as well as the repercussions of their discoveries.”
Scientific American

 “My wonder never ceased as I turned these pages.”
The Washington Post

“Utterly original.”
New Scientist

 “Astounding creativity and beauty . . . a tender and haunting tribute to the scientists who fell in love while conducting research that led to their discovery of radium and polonium.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“Her visual biographies . . . are a delight to the eye, but also show a new way of revealing the contours and dimensions of past lives.”
The Smithsonian Magazine


Century Girl: 100 Years In The Life Of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star Of The Ziegfeld Follies

“Striking and unique . . . captivating readers by twining simple, evocative text with a stunning array of images.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A startlingly original graphic style . . . With its wild, ingenious melding of words and images, Century Girl is unlike anything I've seen before.”
Slate, Best Books of 2006

“With Century Girl, Lauren Redniss creates an entirely new genre of biography.”
Nylon