American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Susan Sontag
Sontag in 1979
Born
Susan Lee Rosenblatt
(1933-01-16)January 16, 1933
New York City, U.S.
Died
December 28, 2004(2004-12-28) (aged 71)
New York City, U.S.
Resting place
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Education
University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago (BA) Harvard University (MA)
Occupations
Novelist
essayist
filmmaker
Years active
1959–2004
Notable work
Against Interpretation (1966)
On Photography (1977)
Illness as Metaphor (1978)
Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
Spouse
Philip Rieff
(m. 1950; div. 1959)
[1]
Partner
Annie Leibovitz (1989–2004)
Children
David Rieff
Website
www.susansontag.com
Susan 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. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).
Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or traveling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about literature, photography and media, culture, AIDS and illness, war, human rights, and left-wing politics. Her essays and speeches drew controversy,[2] and she has been called "one of the most influential critics of her generation".[3]
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^Wolfe, Tom (October 31, 2000). Hooking Up. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0374103828.
^"Susan Sontag", The New York Review of Books, accessed December 19, 2012
Susan Lee Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but...
Regarding SusanSontag is a 2014 documentary film about the American intellectual SusanSontag, directed by Nancy Kates. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival...
the viewers of such photographs of shocking scenes, cultural writer SusanSontag wrote in her essay Regarding the Pain of Others (2003): "There is shame...
by SusanSontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was her last published book before her death in 2004. Sontag regarded...
1977 collection of essays by American writer SusanSontag. The book originated from a series of essays Sontag published in the New York Review of Books between...
On Women is a nonfiction book by SusanSontag published in 2023. Sontag's second posthumously published essay collection after At the Same Time (2007)...
humanitarianism. Rieff is the only child of SusanSontag, who was 19 years old when he was born. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was Philip Rieff, author of...
translator. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of SusanSontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work. Born in Houston, Moser attended St. John's...
Interpretation and Other Essays) is a 1966 collection of essays by SusanSontag. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style," and the eponymous...
But SusanSontag, who is from New York, must know better than they do what reality is because she has chosen them to embody it. [...] And SusanSontag comes...
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by SusanSontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to...
original on 2 December 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2017. "The Ghost of SusanSontag Critiques the Met Gala Red Carpet". The Cut. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 13...
of essays by SusanSontag published in 1969. Among the subjects discussed are film, literature, politics, and pornography. It is Sontag's second collection...
and also, during the 1950s, at the University of Chicago, where he met SusanSontag. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy...
Rollyson, Carl and Paddock, Lisa. 2000. SusanSontag: the Making of an Icon. Courier Companies, Inc.: NYC. "SusanSontag: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh:...
with women, including María Irene Fornés from 1954 to 1957, and then SusanSontag until 1958. In 1963, she married merchant sailor and bohemian Louis Zwerling...
girls Susan and Samuelle were born to a surrogate mother in May 2005. Leibovitz had a close relationship with writer and essayist SusanSontag from 1989...
The Volcano Lover is an historical novel by SusanSontag, published in 1992. Set largely in Naples, it focuses upon Emma Hamilton, her marriage to Sir...
is a 1989 work of critical theory by SusanSontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors...
Swedish psychological drama film written and directed by American writer SusanSontag, in her directorial debut. It stars Adriana Asti, Gösta Ekman, Lars Ekborg...
Points by Amy Berkowitz Illness as Metaphor by SusanSontag Regarding the Pain of Others by SusanSontag Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the...
Other Writings. Verso. Sontag, Susan (1977). On photography. Internet Archive. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Sontag, Susan; Benjamin, Walter. "Introduction...
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