Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag in 1994, bi Juan Fernando Bastos (commissioned bi the The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide for the 2009 Mey–Juin cover)
Born	Susan Rosenblatt 16 Januar 1933(1933-01-16) New York Ceety, New York, U.S.
Dee'd	28 December 2004(2004-12-28) (aged 71) New York Ceety, New York, U.S.
Cause o daith	Myelodysplastic syndrome
Restin place	Montparnasse Seemetry Paris, Fraunce
Naitionality	American
Thrift	Novelist, essayist
Years active	1959–2004
Kent for	Fiction, essays, nonfeection
Hauf-marrae(s)	Philip Rieff (m. 1950–59; divorced)
Pairtner(s)	Annie Leibovitz (1989–2004; her daith)
Wabsteid
www.susansontag.com

Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; Januar 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) wis a Jewish-American writer, filmmaker, teacher, an poleetical activist. She published her first major wark, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-kent works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, an In America.

Sontag wis active in writin an speakin aboot, or travellin tae, auries o conflict, includin during the Vietnam War an the Siege o Sarajevo. She wrote extensively aboot photografie, cultur an media, AIDS an illness, human richts, an communism an leftist ideology. Awtho her essays an speeches whiles drew controversy, she haes been descrived as "ane o the maist influential creetics o her generation."