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Susan Sontag was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In this biography Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. Drawing on newly available sources, as well as on myriad interviews given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.

Produktbeschreibung
Susan Sontag was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In this biography Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. Drawing on newly available sources, as well as on myriad interviews given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.
Autorenporträt
DANIEL SCHREIBER is a Berlin-based writer. An art and literary critic, he contributes to numerous German and Swiss magazines and newspapers, including Die Zeit, DU--das Kulturmagazin, Philosophie Magazin, Litera turen, and Weltkunst, as well as the radio station Deutschlandradio Kultur . He is a columnist for the daily taz--die tageszeitung, and his essays on art and culture appear in a number of anthologies. He was previously contributing editor to Monopol and headed the culture section of the magazine Cicero. DAVID DOLLENMAYER is emeritus professor of German at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is the winner of the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for his translation of Moses Rosenkranz's Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment.