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'''Lauren Redniss''' is an American artist, writer, and teacher.<ref name="About Lauren Redniss">{{cite web|url=http://laurenredniss.com/about/ |title=About Lauren Redniss |publisher=Laurenredniss.com |date= |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>
'''Lauren Redniss''' is an American artist and writer.<ref name="About Lauren Redniss">{{cite web|url=http://laurenredniss.com/about/ |title=About Lauren Redniss |publisher=Laurenredniss.com |date= |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>


She has been awarded the [[MacArthur Foundation]]'s "Genius Grant" and is a fellow of think tank [[New America (organization)|New America]].
She was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the [[MacArthur Foundation|John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]] in 2016.


Her work has won a [[PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award]], been listed as a finalist for the [[National Book Award]], and adapted into a [[Radioactive (film)|movie]] distributed by [[Amazon Studios]].
==Career==
==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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cavna|first=Michael|date=1970-01-01|title='RADIOACTIVE' MAKES HISTORY: 'Curie' author shares shock over becoming National Book Award finalist|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/blogs/comic-riffs/post/radioactive-makes-history-curie-author-shares-shock-over-becoming-national-book-award-finalist/2011/10/12/gIQA9fzphL_blog.html|work=The Washington Post|accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref> ''Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (2015)'' won the 2016 [[PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award]].''<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-09-22|title=2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award &#124; PEN America|url=https://pen.org/literature/2016-pene-o-wilson-literary-science-writing-award|publisher=Pen.org|accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Schuessler|first1=Jennifer|date=October 26, 2015|title=For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/books/for-author-lauren-redniss-no-such-thing-as-bad-weather.html}}</ref>'' The ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' called ''Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West'' (2020) "astonishing" and "virtuosic."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Griswold|first=Eliza|date=2020-11-17|title=A Copper Mine vs. Sacred Apache Land: The Story in Words and Images|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/oak-flat-lauren-redniss.html|access-date=2021-10-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
She is the author of three works of visual non-fiction: ''Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future'' (2015), ''Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout'' (2010), and ''Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West'' (2020).


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 hyper-literate, hyper-curious, and slightly mad artist."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nast|first=Condé|date=2021-07-23|title=Lauren Redniss and the Art of the Indescribable|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/lauren-redniss-and-the-art-of-the-indescribable|access-date=2021-10-02|website=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref> [[The Sunday Telegraph|''The Sunday Telegraph'']] has called Redniss' work "some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world."<ref>{{cite news|author=[[Gaby Wood]]|date=2016-01-23|title=Is this the year's most political picture book?|newspaper=The Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph.co.uk|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/is-this-the-years-most-political-picture-book/|accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref> 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 marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction."<ref name="About Lauren Redniss" />
''Thunder and Lighting'' won the 2016 [[PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pen.org/literature/2016-pene-o-wilson-literary-science-writing-award |title=2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award &#124; PEN America |publisher=Pen.org |date=2016-09-22 |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/books/for-author-lauren-redniss-no-such-thing-as-bad-weather.html|title = For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather|newspaper = The New York Times|date = October 26, 2015|last1 = Schuessler|first1 = Jennifer}}</ref> and ''Radioactive'' was a finalist for the 2011 [[National Book Award]], the first work of visual non-fiction to be so recognized.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cavna |first=Michael |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/blogs/comic-riffs/post/radioactive-makes-history-curie-author-shares-shock-over-becoming-national-book-award-finalist/2011/10/12/gIQA9fzphL_blog.html |title='RADIOACTIVE' MAKES HISTORY: 'Curie' author shares shock over becoming National Book Award finalist |work=The Washington Post |date=1970-01-01 |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>


Redniss is also the author of ''Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies'' (2006).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-085333-4 |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies by Lauren Redniss|publisher=Publishersweekly.com |date=2006-10-30 |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref> Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications including the ''[[New York Times]]'', which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="About Lauren Redniss" /> She teaches at [[Parsons the New School for Design]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty.aspx?id=4d7a-5132-4f54-6b79 |title=Lauren Redniss - Assistant Professor of Illustration |publisher=Newschool.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>
Redniss is also the author of ''Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of Ziegfeld Follies'' (2006). Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications including the [[New York Times]], which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="About Lauren Redniss" />


Redniss has been a [[New America Foundation]] fellow,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Current Class of National Fellows|url=http://newamerica.org/fellows/current-roster/|access-date=2021-10-02|website=New America|language=en}}</ref> a [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]] fellow,<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Lauren Redniss|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lauren-redniss/|access-date=2021-10-02|language=en-US}}</ref> a fellow at the [[New York Public Library]]’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers,<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Names 2008-2009 Fellows|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2008/03/31/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center-scholars|access-date=2021-10-02|website=The New York Public Library}}</ref> and Artist-in-Residence at the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schuessler|first=Jennifer|date=2015-10-26|title=For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/books/for-author-lauren-redniss-no-such-thing-as-bad-weather.html|access-date=2021-10-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She teaches at the [[Parsons the New School for Design|Parsons School of Design]] in New York City.
''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' has called Redniss' work "some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world."<ref>{{cite news|author=[[Gaby Wood]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/is-this-the-years-most-political-picture-book/ |title=Is this the year's most political picture book? |newspaper=The Telegraph |publisher=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2016-01-23 |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>
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 marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction.”<ref name="About Lauren Redniss" />

Redniss was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]] in 2016. She is a 2017 [[New America Foundation]] fellow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newamerica.org/fellows/current-roster/ |title=Current Roster |publisher=Newamerica.org |date= |accessdate=2016-09-28}}</ref>


==In other media==
==In other media==
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In February 2018, the film was acquired by [[Amazon Studios]], with filming beginning in [[Budapest]] and [[Esztergom]]<ref>[https://www.szeretgom.hu/content/86721-varsova-valtozott-a-vizivaros Varsóvá változott a Víziváros]</ref> the same week.<ref>Elsa Keslassy (2018-02-19), [https://variety.com/2018/film/global/amazon-marjane-astrapi-radioactive-marie-curie-biopic-1202704419/ "Amazon Boards Marjane Satrapi's Marie Curie Biopic ‘Radioactive’ (EXCLUSIVE)"], ''Variety''.</ref> The cast was rounded out by [[Sam Riley]], [[Anya Taylor-Joy]], [[Aneurin Barnard]] and [[Simon Russell Beale]] a few days later.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-sam-riley-anya-taylor-joy-aneurin-barnard-join-marie-curie-biopic-radioactive-1087338 Berlin: Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard Join Marie Curie Biopic 'Radioactive']</ref>
In February 2018, the film was acquired by [[Amazon Studios]], with filming beginning in [[Budapest]] and [[Esztergom]]<ref>[https://www.szeretgom.hu/content/86721-varsova-valtozott-a-vizivaros Varsóvá változott a Víziváros]</ref> the same week.<ref>Elsa Keslassy (2018-02-19), [https://variety.com/2018/film/global/amazon-marjane-astrapi-radioactive-marie-curie-biopic-1202704419/ "Amazon Boards Marjane Satrapi's Marie Curie Biopic ‘Radioactive’ (EXCLUSIVE)"], ''Variety''.</ref> The cast was rounded out by [[Sam Riley]], [[Anya Taylor-Joy]], [[Aneurin Barnard]] and [[Simon Russell Beale]] a few days later.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-sam-riley-anya-taylor-joy-aneurin-barnard-join-marie-curie-biopic-radioactive-1087338 Berlin: Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard Join Marie Curie Biopic 'Radioactive']</ref>

In 2020, Redniss created a large installation at [[Lincoln Center]] for [[New York City Ballet]]. Her installation featured portraits and oral histories of over 100 people who work behind the scenes at the theater.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lauren Redniss {{!}} New York City Ballet|url=https://www.nycballet.com/season-and-tickets/nycb-art-series/art-series-2020-lauren-redniss|access-date=2021-10-02|website=www.nycballet.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nguyen|first=Jennimai|date=2020-01-31|title=Portraits of Backstage Stars of the New York City Ballet|url=https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/new-york-city-ballet-art-series-lauren-redniss.html|access-date=2021-10-02|website=The Cut|language=en-us}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 16:31, 2 October 2021

Lauren Redniss
SpracheEnglish and French
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrown University
Notable awardsPEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, MacArthur Fellow

Lauren Redniss is an American artist and writer.[1]

She was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2016.

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.[2] Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future (2015) won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[3][4] The New York Times called Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (2020) "astonishing" and "virtuosic."[5]

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 hyper-literate, hyper-curious, and slightly mad artist."[6] The Sunday Telegraph has called Redniss' work "some of the most inventive, rigorous and beguiling published anywhere in the world."[7] 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 marrying the graphic and visual arts with biography and cultural history, she has expanded the realm of non-fiction."[1]

Redniss is also the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of Ziegfeld Follies (2006). Her writing and drawing have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, which nominated her work for the Pulitzer Prize.[1]

Redniss has been a New America Foundation fellow,[8] a Guggenheim Foundation fellow,[9] a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers,[10] and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History.[11] She teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

In other media

It was announced in February 2017 that Marjane Satrapi would direct a film adaptation of Redniss's graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, with StudioCanal and Working Title Films serving as producers. An Autumn 2017 production start was initially foreseen.[12] In May 2017, during the Cannes Film Festival, Rosamund Pike was cast as Curie.[13]

In February 2018, the film was acquired by Amazon Studios, with filming beginning in Budapest and Esztergom[14] the same week.[15] The cast was rounded out by Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard and Simon Russell Beale a few days later.[16]

In 2020, Redniss created a large installation at Lincoln Center for New York City Ballet. Her installation featured portraits and oral histories of over 100 people who work behind the scenes at the theater.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b c "About Lauren Redniss". Laurenredniss.com. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  2. ^ Cavna, Michael (January 1, 1970). "'RADIOACTIVE' MAKES HISTORY: 'Curie' author shares shock over becoming National Book Award finalist". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  3. ^ "2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | PEN America". Pen.org. September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (October 26, 2015). "For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Griswold, Eliza (November 17, 2020). "A Copper Mine vs. Sacred Apache Land: The Story in Words and Images". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  6. ^ Nast, Condé (July 23, 2021). "Lauren Redniss and the Art of the Indescribable". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  7. ^ Gaby Wood (January 23, 2016). "Is this the year's most political picture book?". The Telegraph. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  8. ^ "Current Class of National Fellows". New America. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  9. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Lauren Redniss". Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  10. ^ "The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Names 2008-2009 Fellows". The New York Public Library. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  11. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (October 26, 2015). "For the Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  12. ^ Nancy Tartalione (2019-02-16), "Marjane Satrapi To Helm ‘Radioactive’ Marie Curie Story For Working Title & Studiocanal", Deadline.
  13. ^ John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy (2017-05-16), "Rosamund Pike Set for Marie Curie Story ‘Radioactive’ From Working Title, Studiocanal (EXCLUSIVE)", Variety.
  14. ^ Varsóvá változott a Víziváros
  15. ^ Elsa Keslassy (2018-02-19), "Amazon Boards Marjane Satrapi's Marie Curie Biopic ‘Radioactive’ (EXCLUSIVE)", Variety.
  16. ^ Berlin: Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard Join Marie Curie Biopic 'Radioactive'
  17. ^ "Lauren Redniss | New York City Ballet". www.nycballet.com. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  18. ^ Nguyen, Jennimai (January 31, 2020). "Portraits of Backstage Stars of the New York City Ballet". The Cut. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
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