Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Biography
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
Occupation
Susan Sontag is recorded as a women's rights activist, a essayist, a philosopher, a novelist, a opinion journalist, a film critic, a director, a literary critic, a theatre director, a film director, a journalist, a human rights defender, a historian, a professor, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New York (1933–2004).
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