Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize. Redniss is also the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of Ziegfeld Follies (2006). In marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction.' Reading her work is like poring over the notebooks of a hyper-literate, hyper-curious, and slightly mad artist.' The Sunday Telegraph has called Redniss' work 'some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world.' In its citation of Radioactive, the National Book Foundation wrote: 'Redniss' achievement is a celebration of the essential power of books to inform, charm, and transport. In 2021, the New Yorker magazine wrote, 'In the world of arts and letters, there isn’t anyone quite like Lauren Redniss. The New York Times called Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (2020) 'astonishing' and 'virtuosic.'

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (2015) won the 2016 PEN/E. 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. Redniss is the author of several works of visual non-fiction. She earned an MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay in 2000 from the School of Visual Arts. She was awarded a 'Genius Grant' from the John D. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award (2016), MacArthur Fellow (2016)

Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

Radioactive by lauren redniss