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Susan Sontag : : a Biography

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"Originally published in German in 2007 under the title Susan Sontag: Geist und Glamour."
Memories of a so-called childhood (1933-1944) -- The invention of Susan Sontag (1945-1948) -- Intellectual delirium (1949-1957) -- Paris, a romance (1958-1959) -- The New York nexus (1959-1963) -- Camp (1964) -- Styles of the avant-garde (1965-1967) -- Radical chic (1967-1969) -- Behind the camera (1969-1972) -- In semi-exile (1972-1975) -- The kingdom of the sick (1975-1979) -- The last intellectual (1980-1983) -- Small-scale politics (1984-1988) -- Return to the Magic Mountain (1989-1992) -- Theater at the spiritual front (1993-1997) -- Life and afterlife (1998-2001) -- The pain of others (2001-2004).
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.

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PUBLISHED
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xiii, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780810125834
0810125838

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dollenmayer, David,

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