Susan Sontag, née Susan Rosenblatt, (born January 16, 1933, New York, New York, U.S.—died December 28, 2004, New York), American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles.

Did Susan Sontag have a PhD?

But Sontag’s departure from academia was not quite as straightforward as that. Three years later, she still regretted not having finished her dissertation and even planned to complete it after all—probably on recent French philosophy—and earn her PhD from Harvard.

Who is Susan Sontag’s son?

David Rieff
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The writer Susan Sontag’s death, as set out in this short and immensely disturbing account by her son, David Rieff, must rank as one of the worst ever described. For starters, it took a long time. Ms. Sontag was diagnosed with breast cancer metastatic to the lymph nodes in 1975, at 42.

Who was Susan Sontag married to?

Philip Rieffm. 1950–1959
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What assumption about the work of art persists according to Sontag?

According to Sontag, it preserves the very questioning of art’s value itself: the fact that art perpetually needs a defense. The concern with value, moreover, always privileges art’s content.

What was the name of Susan Sontag’s 1977 critical essay about photography that started a serious intellectual conversation about the nature of photography?

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag’s On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and …

Where was Susan Sontag born?

New York, NY
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What was the cause of death of Susan Sontag?

The cause was complications of acute myelogenous leukemia, her son, David Rieff, said. Ms. Sontag, who died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, had been ill with cancer intermittently for the last 30 years, a struggle that informed one of her most famous books, the critical study “Illness as Metaphor” (1978).

Did Susan Sontag have children?

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