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| Name: |
Susan Sontag | | Birth Date: |
January 28, 1933 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
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 Biography of Susan Sontag
775 words, approx. 2.6 pages
 Among the literary stars of the radical 1960s, Susan Sontag (born 1933) produced numerous works evaluating and commenting on contemporary life and literature. Her essays appeared in nearly every major publication beginning in 1962, and her assessment of... summary from source:
 Biography of Susan Sontag
4862 words, approx. 16.2 pages
 Although Susan Sontag is best known as a critic, she has more than once expressed regret for having devoted so much time to having written the essays that brought her renown. As she once explained to reporter Leticia Kent, "a couple of things you do get... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Sontag
2501 words, approx. 8.3 pages
Susan Sontag, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker, was born 16 January 1933 in New York City. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, and at the age of fifteen (1948) entered the University of California at Berkeley. S...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 In America Information
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In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag which won the National Book Award in 2000. Although it is fiction, it is based upon the true story of the Polish actress Helena Modjeska, called Maryna Zalewska in the book, her arrival in California in 1876,...
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 New Criterion Susan Sontag In America: A Novel.(Review)
04/01/2000: 1,512 words, approx. 5 pages Susan Sontag In America: A Novel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 387 pages, $26 In America begins with an epigraph from Langston Hughes: "America will be!" It is a fitting start to the story of a group of Poles who travel to Anaheim, California... summary from source:
The Loyalist Gazette Two Georges: a novel of an alternate America.
09/22/1998: 355 words, approx. 1 pages Reviewed by Lt. Col. William Smy OMM, CD, UE Authors: William Drefus and Harry Turtledove Fiction, paperback 596 pages. Publisher: Tor Books, 175 Fifth Ave: NewYork, NY USA 10010 Price CDN$8.99 This is an alternate fiction historical novel. The...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Michael Silverblatt
2,359 words, approx. 8 pages
In the following review, Silverblatt comments on the disillusionment and Americanization of the characters in Sontag's novel In America.
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Critical Review by Sven Birkerts
1,561 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Birkerts contends that In America lacks dramatic tension and character plausibility.
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Critical Review by Carl Rollyson
1,483 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Rollyson judges Sontag's In America as a trite, underdeveloped historical novel.
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