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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.
Susan Sontag was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year and then transferred to the University.
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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.
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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...
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and work of Susan Sontag, a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. She wrote influential books on topics such as photography, illness, camp and America.
Jul 6, 2015 · In this essay from 1969, Sontag argues that art is a form of spirituality and silence is a paradoxical tool for the modern artist. She explores how silence mediates the role of art as a form of consciousness and a response to the craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge.
