Susan Sontag : a biography

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Label

Susan Sontag : a biography

Title remainder

a biography

Statement of responsibility

Daniel Schreiber ; translated from the German by David Dollenmayer

Creator

• Schreiber, Daniel, 1977-

Contributor

• Dollenmayer, David

Author

• Schreiber, Daniel, 1977-

Translator

• Dollenmayer, David

Subject

• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Biography
• Critics
• Critics -- Biography
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Biography
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
• Women authors, American
• Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
• Authors, American

Genre

• Biography

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. While known primarily as a cultural critic and novelist, Sontag was also a filmmaker, stage director, and dramatist. It was her status as a pop icon that was unusual for an American intellectual: she was filmed by Andy Warhol and Woody Allen, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and Diane Arbus, and her likeness adorned advertisements for Absolut vodka. Drawing on newly available sources, including interviews with Nadine Gordimer, Robert Wilson, and Sontag's son, David Rieff, as well as on myriad interviews given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her friend and publisher Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations

Member of

• Susan Sontag

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

IEN/DLC

Index

index present

Language note

Translated from the German

LC call number

PS3569.O6547

LC item number

Z87913 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography