Susan Sontag: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Susan Sontag (born January 28, 1933) is a well-known American essayist and novelist..

Sontag was in born in New York City, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard and Saint Anne's College, Oxford.

Sontag sparked controvery and later apologized for her remarks in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Sontag wrote, "Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards."

On October 12, 2003, Sontag received the Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade) during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Fiction

• The Benefactor (1963) ISBN 038526710X
• "Death Kit"
• The Volcano Lover (1992) ISBN 1558008187
• In America (2000) ISBN 1568958986
• I, etcetera (Collection of short stories) ISBN 0374174024
• "The Way We Live Now" (1991)

• Against Interpretation (1966) ISBN 0385267088
• On Photography (1977) ISBN 0374226261
• Under the Sign of Saturn (1975) ISBN 0374280762
• Illness as Metaphor (1978) ISBN 0394728440
• AIDS and Its Metaphors (1988; a continuation to Illness) ISBN 0374102570
• "Notes on 'Camp'"
• Where the Stress Falls (2001) ISBN 0374289174
• Styles of Radical Will (2002)
• Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) ISBN 0374248583

Sontag has also written for:

• The New Yorker
• The New York Review of Books
• Times Literary Supplement
• The Nation
• Granta
• Partisan Review
• London Review of Books