Susan Sontag: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Susan Rosenblatt
Born January 16, 1933 • New York City • New York
Died December 28, 2004 (aged 71) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award
Notable Works “AIDS and Its Metaphors” • “Against Interpretation and Other Essays” • “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches” • “Death Kit” • “Illness as Metaphor” • “In America” • “Notes on ‘Camp’ ” • “Styles of Radical Will” • “The Volcano Lover: A Romance” • “Under the Sign of Saturn”

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Joyce Carol Oates
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John Updike
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Philip Roth
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Toni Morrison
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Ralph Ellison
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Flannery O’Connor
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Ha Jin
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Jonathan Franzen
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William Styron
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John Cheever
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