biography
pronunciation:
[sontag]
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Critic and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. She grew up in Arizona and Los Angeles, took degrees from the University of Chicago and Harvard, then did postgraduate work at Oxford before settling in New York City to teach and write. She first gained attention with her essay, ‘Notes on Camp’ (1964), and went on to publish several novels including The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (2000), but she is best known for her critical essays and cultural analyses such as On Photography (1976) and Illness as Metaphor (1978). She also directed her own film, Duet for Cannibals (1969). The nature of her concerns and writings have gained her the reputation as America's answer to ‘Continental intellectuals’. Her son by an early marriage, David Rieff, is the author of Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World (1991). |
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