| Susan Sontag  AKA Susan Rosenblatt
Born: 16-Jan-1933
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 28-Dec-2004
Location of death: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - Leukemia
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Author, Activist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Novelist, critic, intellectual Father: Jack Rosenblatt (fur trader, d. 1939)
Mother: Mildred (alcoholic schoolteacher)
Sister: Judith Cohen
Husband: Philip Rieff (m. 1950, div. 1959)
Son: David Rieff (b. 1952)
High School: North Hollywood High School, North Hollywood, CA
University: UC Berkeley
University: BA, University of Chicago (1951)
University: MA, Radcliffe College (1952)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
MacArthur Fellowship
National Book Award for Fiction 2000 for In America
Polk Award 1965
Polk Award 2002
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2003
Risk Factors: Breast Cancer
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Zelig (15-Jul-1983) Herself
Official Website:
http://www.susansontag.com/
Author of books:
The Benefactor (1963, novel)
Death Kit (1967, novel)
Against Interpretation (1968, essays)
Styles of Radical Will (1969, essays)
On Photography (1977)
Illness as Metaphor (1977)
Under the Sign of Saturn (1980)
AIDS and Its Metaphors (1988)
The Volcano Lover (1992, novel)
In America (2000)
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