Lauren Redniss Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Picture Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Lauren Redniss is a successful published author.

She is known for having written books such as Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies. She has also written Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, which was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for nonfiction. It was also adapted into a major motion picture, the 2019 movie Radioactive directed by Marjane Satrapi.

Lauren is the author of a few works of visual nonfiction. She has also been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’. She has also won book awards for her novels such as Thunder & Lightning, which won her the 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Her writing and drawing has been featured in different publications such as the New York Times, which nominated her for the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers, which was at the New York Public Library for 2008 to 2009. She also became a New York Institute for the Humanities fellow in 2010.

Lauren has also been an Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History. She also teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her book Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West was referred to by The New York Times as ‘brilliant’ and ‘virtuosic’.

Lauren has also been a Guggenheim fellow and in 2020 came up with an 8,000 square-foot installation at Lincoln Center for New York City Ballet.

Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout is a 2010 book by Lauren Redniss. It was the first visual book to be picked as a finalist for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction. The National Book Foundation wrote that the novel is ‘a celebration of the essential power of books to inform, charm, and transport’.

This is a visual journey that takes readers into the life of the real life figure Marie Curie. It is told through the collage style of Lauren Redniss, author and artist. It shows off her style as a visual storyteller, where she has hand designed over a hundred color collages in order to tell the story of Curie.

The book is fascinating in its scientific significance as well as its combination of romance and intrigue, a mix that can be often whimsical or haunting. It brings together images, archival photos, and clippings along with line drawings and an interesting narrative.

More than just a graphic novel or an art book, this is a visual biography that will blow readers away and a unique and fascinating as well as impressive work of art.

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future is a 2015 book by Lauren Redniss. If you love nonfiction books on a variety of topics or are fascinated by the weather, then this is the right book for you.

Weather makes up the air that we all breathe. It helps to shape our daily lives and can even change the course of history through its impact. In this novel, the author tells all about not only weather but the story of how it has influenced and affected the human race through the ages.

This work takes the reader everywhere along the globe and through different times, from a dry desert to a cold island in the Arctic, to a Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss also goes to the headquarters of the National Weather Service, goes through top secret rainmaking operations in the Vietnam War, and takes a closer look at the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

Pulling from a variety of research as well as a variety of interviews, she takes a closer look at our contemporary day and age. She goes over all our decisions, from needing an umbrella to the challenges faced with climate change.

Every element of this book was produced by the author, from the artwork to the text to the covers and the pages in between. Many of the images were produced using copper plate photogravure etching, an antiquated printmaking technique, and she designed the typeface of the book as well. Find out a lot more about weather and even humanity by reading this book!