Susan Sontag - Wikipedia
WebSusan Lee Sontag ( / ˈsɒntæɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.
Susan Sontag | Biography, On Photography, Notes on Camp ...
WebApr 9, 2024 · Susan Sontag (born January 16, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2004, New York) was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Susan Sontag, c. 1990. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles.
'The pictures will not go away': Susan Sontag's lifelong ...
WebBenjamin Moser. Tue 17 Sep 2019 03.00 EDT. In 2004, as Susan Sontag lay dying, horrifying pictures began to emerge from a prison in Iraq. She had received a diagnosis of blood cancer at the end...
How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think - The New York Times
WebOct 8, 2019 · How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think. The critic A.O. Scott reflects on the outsize influence Sontag has had on his life as a critic. By A.O. SCOTT OCT. 8, 2019. I spent my adolescence in a ...
Susan Sontag
WebSusan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford.
She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag
WebOct. 21, 2019. SONTAG. Her Life and Work. By Benjamin Moser. A man who’d been a classmate in grade school remembered being accosted one day in the yard by Susan Sontag, then around the age of...
A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person ...
WebSep 15, 2019 · By Nina Siegal. Published Sept. 15, 2019 Updated Sept. 16, 2019. UTRECHT, Netherlands — When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual,...
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