Lauren Redniss

Lauren Redniss is the author of three works of visual nonfiction. Her most recent book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather, Past, Present, Future, won the 2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She is the recipient of a “Genius Grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation.


Articles by Lauren Redniss

A stylized orange and yellow illustration shows a large fire burning through a landscape, with flames engulfing buildings in the foreground and another blaze on hills in the background. Several structures and trees are outlined.
Monday March 6

Fire

“Everything was on fire….There were fingers of orange flame creeping through the grass on the backs, as though the fire were a living thing.”