Susan Sontag (1933–2004)
Author of On Photography
About the Author
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a show more collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag: Obra imprescindible / Susan Sontag: Essential Works: Edición de David Rieff (Spanish Edition) (2022) 6 copies
Odio sentirmi una vittima. Intervista su amore, dolore e scrittura con Jonathan Cott (2016) 5 copies
Granta: Sobre la marcha. Tomo #7 (Granta: As [You] Go Through Life. Volume #7) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 2 copies
A dama do mar 2 copies
Başkasının Acısına Bakmak 1 copy
benefactor, el 1 copy
De las mujeres 1 copy
SATÜRN YILDIZI ALTINDA 1 copy
Holocaust 1 copy
What Have We Done? 1 copy
Um sársauka annarra 1 copy
BİLİNCİN KAPISINI ARALAMAK 1 copy
Godard 1 copy
The Way We Live Now: Stories 1 copy
Worauf es ankommt : Essays 1 copy
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributor — 504 copies
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (1976) — Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 310 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 81 copies
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 72 copies
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributor — 71 copies
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contributor — 43 copies
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contributor — 8 copies
海 1972年05月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sontag, Susan
- Legal name
- Rosenblatt, Susan Lee (birth)
- Birthdate
- 1933-01-16
- Date of death
- 2004-12-28
- Burial location
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- acute myelogenous leukemia
cancer - Places of residence
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Education
- University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago (BA|1951)
Harvard University (MA|1954|MA|1955)
Oxford University (St. Anne's College)
Sorbonne - Occupations
- novelist
screenwriter
critic
teacher
essayist - Relationships
- Rieff, Philip (husband|divorced)
Rieff, David (son)
Leibovitz, Annie (partner)
Fornes, Maria Irene (partner)
Taubes, Susan (friend) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1979)
- Awards and honors
- Jerusalem Prize (2001)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias (Letters, 2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1976)
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2003)
MacArthur Fellowship (1990)
Premio Malaparte (1992) (show all 10)
National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism (1977)
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1999)
National Book Award (2000)
George Polk Award (2002)
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AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--FEBRUARY 2024--SUSAN SONTAG in 75 Books Challenge for 2024 (February 24)
Susan Sontag in Legacy Libraries (April 2018)
Novel about a melancholic couple in Name that Book (June 2012)
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- 91
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- 57
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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