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Biography

Name: Susan Sontag
Birth Date: January 28, 1933
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Susan Sontag
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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...
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Biography of Susan Sontag
4,862 words, approx. 16 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...
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Biography of Susan Sontag
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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....


Quotations
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Susan Sontag Quotes
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Susan Sontag ( 1933-01-16 – 2004-12-28 ) was an American author and activist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966) 1.2 On Photography (1977) 1.3 Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003) 2 Misattributed 3 External links 3.1...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Susan Sontag Information
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Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Susan Sontag
12/30/2004: 336 words, approx. 1 pages
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-30-2004 Susan Sontag Date: 12-30-2004, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Biographical: Susan Sontag Calling Susan Sontag a critic, essayist and novelist of enormous influence both belabors the...
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The Virginia Quarterly Review
Remembering Susan Sontag
01/01/2007: 1,358 words, approx. 5 pages
In thinking of my mother now, more than a year after her death, I often find myself dwelling on that startling phrase in Auden's great memorial poem for Yeats-words that both sum up what small immortality artistic accomplishment sometimes can confer and are, simultaneously,...
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The New York Observer
Why We Miss Susan Sontag, Volume I
2/25/2007: 983 words, approx. 3 pages
At first glance, the cover of Susan Sontag’s final book—the almost-complete manuscript she left at her death in December 2004—seems antiseptic and ultra-modern, like an architectural photograph of the Düsseldorf School. Designed by Winterhouse, a small press run by her friend William Drenttel, it features...
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The New York Observer
Rieff’s Grief: Sontag’s Son, On Her Death
1/8/2008: 979 words, approx. 3 pages
SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DEATH By David Rieff Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21 There’s something obscene about sitting at a desk, in a chair that corrects the posture, sipping warm, sugary tea, yawning or scratching, barely aware of the fug of felt life,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Susan Sontag and Edward Hirsch
8,660 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following interview, conducted in July, 1994, Sontag reveals the authors who have inspired and influenced her literary career, comments on the craft of writing, and elaborates on the different approaches she takes between writing essays and writing fiction.
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Critical Essay by Sohnya Sayres
7,455 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Sayres examines both Sontag's fiction and her essays, focusing on her epigrammatic style, her multilayered studies into contradictions and negations, and modernist theories.
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Critical Essay by Roger Kimball
4,436 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Kimball explores the inconsistencies he has found in several of Sontag's essays. Kimball argues against many of Sontag's conclusions, noting that she frequently contradicts herself in her own essays.
 


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