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This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence—including emails—and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography.

The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2739571
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Year:
2016
Edition:
Revised and updated edition
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
Language:
English
Pages:
385 pages
ISBN 10:
162846237X
ISBN 13:
9781496808493
ISBN:
9781628462371,9781496808462,9781496808479,9781496808486,9781496808493,1496808495,162846237X

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