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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 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) — biography from On Photography… (more)
On Photography 3,153 copies, 40 reviews
Regarding the Pain of Others 1,803 copies, 23 reviews
The Volcano Lover 1,480 copies, 22 reviews
In America 1,220 copies, 9 reviews
Women (Author) 638 copies, 11 reviews
Illness as Metaphor 623 copies, 18 reviews
Under the Sign of Saturn 537 copies, 7 reviews
Styles of Radical Will 448 copies, 2 reviews
Where the Stress Falls 438 copies, 4 reviews
I, etcetera 371 copies, 3 reviews
Death Kit 301 copies, 1 review
AIDS and Its Metaphors 248 copies, 3 reviews
A Susan Sontag Reader 241 copies, 1 review
The Benefactor 233 copies, 3 reviews
Essays of the 1960s & 70s 168 copies, 1 review
Notes on "Camp" 159 copies
The Best American Essays 1992 (Editor) 132 copies
Alice in Bed 82 copies
Debriefing: Collected Stories 79 copies, 1 review
Don McCullin (Essay) 73 copies, 1 review
Violent Legacies: Three Cantos 50 copies, 1 review
Trip to Hanoi 32 copies
Stories: Collected Stories 25 copies, 1 review
Brother Carl 17 copies
A dama do mar 2 copies
Amerika'da 1 copy
Holocaust 1 copy
Godard 1 copy
Pedro Páramo (Foreword, some editions) 2,989 copies, 69 reviews
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Contributor) 1,516 copies, 10 reviews
Ferdydurke (Foreword, some editions) 1,334 copies, 16 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 736 copies, 4 reviews
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (Introduction, some editions) 692 copies, 11 reviews
Summer in Baden-Baden (Introduction, some editions) 594 copies, 14 reviews
Under the Glacier (Afterword, some editions) 575 copies, 22 reviews
The Temptation to Exist (Introduction, some editions) 527 copies, 5 reviews
Selected Stories (Foreword, some editions) 526 copies, 11 reviews
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (Preface, some editions) 422 copies, 8 reviews
A Barthes Reader (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 401 copies, 1 review
Telling Tales (Contributor) 332 copies, 2 reviews
The Portable Sixties Reader (Contributor) 312 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2003 (Contributor) 305 copies, 1 review
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (Editor, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 301 copies, 4 reviews
The Walk (Foreword, some editions) 299 copies, 9 reviews
Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology (Contributor) 223 copies, 1 review
Letters: Summer 1926 (Foreword, some editions) 207 copies, 1 review
The Disability Studies Reader (Contributor, some editions) 160 copies, 1 review
McLuhan, Hot & Cool (Contributor) 154 copies, 1 review
The Best American Essays 1997 (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville (Introduction, some editions) 146 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (Contributor) 124 copies
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (Contributor) 118 copies, 3 reviews
Plays (Preface) 93 copies
A Place in the World Called Paris (Foreword) 85 copies, 1 review
Selected Writings of Roland Barthes (Editor, some editions) 81 copies
Science Fiction: The Future (Contributor) 79 copies, 1 review
Howard Hodgkin Paintings (Foreword) 53 copies
Granta 1: New American Writing (Contributor) 44 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind (Contributor) 43 copies
Hitler, a Film From Germany (Preface, some editions) 38 copies, 1 review
Partisan Review (Contributor, some editions) 33 copies
Conjunctions: 30, Paper Airplane (Contributor) 10 copies
American Review 21 (Contributor) 9 copies
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing (Contributor) 8 copies
Paras elokuvakirja (Contributor) 5 copies
海 1972年05月号 (Contributor) 1 copy
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