London Sojourn: Rewriting Life After Retirement

Rebecca Knuth is a retired professor and expert on censorship and cultural destruction. Formerly at the University of Hawaii, she authored Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the 20th Century and has contributed to Smithsonian Magazine, Cabinet, History News Network, CBC Radio, and more. Transitioning to creative nonfiction, she earned a third master’s degree and immersed herself in London’s literary scene. Now a full-time writer, she published Emily Dickinson Had to Have Curls in 2024. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she coordinated the Sylvia Beach Writers Conference as part of the Oregon Writers Colony.