Sontag Her Life and Work

Benjamin Moser

eBook - 2019

The Pulitzer Prize-winning "landmark biography" of the towering 20th century intellectual, exploring the hidden struggles behind the formidable public face (The New York Times).Named one of the Best Books of the Year by O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Seattle TimesFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism... and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in... more