Susan Sontag / Jerome Boyd Maunsell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maunsell, Jerome Boyd, author.

Series:

Critical lives.

Critical Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Sontag, Susan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything.'" This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics-from literature, dance, film, and painting to cancer, AIDS, and the ethics of war reportage. For many critics, her work captures the twentieth-century world better than almost any other. In this new biography, Jerome Boyd Maunsell draws on Sontag's extensive diaries to offer a far more intimate portrait than ever before of her struggles in love, marriage, mo

Contents:

Cover; Susan Sontag; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Beginnings, 1933-1950; 2. Notes on Marriage, 1951-1958; 3. New York! New York! 1959-1965; 4. Styles of Radical Will, 1966-1968; 5. In Plato's Cave, 1968-1975; 6. The Kingdom of the Sick, 1975-1988; 7. Beginning Again, 1988-2000; 8. The Pain of Others, 2000-2004; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 12, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78023-329-9

OCLC:

880531532