

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
