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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