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Early life and education. Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (née Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian [4] and Polish descent. Her father managed a fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosis in 1939, when Susan was five years old. [1]
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.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Oct 8, 2019 · A 95-cent Dell paperback with a front-cover photograph of the author, Susan Sontag. There is no doubt that the picture was part of the book’s allure — the angled, dark-eyed gaze, the...
Oct 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 12, who wanted to...
What did it feel like to enter the soul of Susan Sontag? BENJAMIN MOSER: The key to any writing is empathy. You have to know how to understand a person — real or fictional — different from yourself.
Sep 15, 2019 · UTRECHT, Netherlands — When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual, essayist, novelist and political activist, often...
Feb 27, 2000 · Joan Acocella on the novelist and essayist Susan Sontag, whose outspokenness and combativeness was the Parisian model of braininess.
Sontag was born in New York City in 1933, raised in various suburbs—on Long Island, near Tucson, the San Fernando Valley—and when she enrolled at Berkeley as a teenager, she felt she’d found home, standing in line and hearing Proust’s name pronounced correctly for the first time.
Emeritus Director. Susan was a full time homemaker and mother to her children Fred, Cindy, and Julie when in 1994 she was diagnosed with brain cancer in the form of a grade 3 astrocytoma. At the time she was told she would most likely have less than 3 years to live.
