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Because of the pandemic, our 2021 prize winner, Rebecca Solnit, will be recognized during the 2022 Iowa City Book Festival. A separate prize will not be awarded in 2022. The next prize will be awarded in fall 2023. Rebecca Solnit has been named the eleventh recipient of the Paul Engle Prize, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist who has written more than twenty books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including "Whose Story Is This?", "Call Them By Their True Names" (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), "Men Explain Things to Me," "The Mother of All Questions", and the recent memoir, "Recollections of My Nonexistence". She has received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a former “Easy Chair” columnist at Harper’s.

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