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Unauthorized Biography of Susan Sontag

2020-08-28T23:04:19.891Z

Benjamin Moser accessed the private archives to investigate the life of the writer. Her critical view of the intellectual deserved the Pulitzer this year but sparked controversy

Undated portrait of Susan Sontag. Gil Gilbert

Just over half a century after publishing her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation, in 1966 and becoming the most famous and charismatic American intellectual woman of her generation, the figure of Susan Sontag (New York, 1933-2004) returned to the center of the controversy ...

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