Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " See more

Sontag became politically active in the 1960s, opposing the Vietnam War. In January 1968, she signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest See more

Following Sontag's death, Steve Wasserman of the Los Angeles Times called her "one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the … See more

Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (née Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. Her father managed … See more

Fiction
While working on her stories, Sontag taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College See more

Sontag's mother died of lung cancer in Hawaii in 1986.
Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004, aged 71, from complications of See more

White civilization as a cancer
Sontag drew criticism for writing in 1967 in Partisan Review:
If America is the … See more