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Susan Sontag (born January 28, 1933) is a well-known American essayist and novelist.Sontag was in born in New York City, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard and Saint Anne's College, Oxford.
Sontag sparked controversy and later apologized for her remarks in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Sontag wrote, "Whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards."
On October 12, 2003, Sontag received the Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels ( Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ) during the Frankfurt Book Fair .
1 Fiction
2 Nonfiction
Sontag has also written for:
- The New Yorker
- The New York Review of Books
- Times Literary Supplement
- The NationFor the township in Ontario see The Nation, Ontario. The Nation is a weekly leftist periodical devoted to politics and culture. Founded in 1865 as a classical liberal publication, it is the oldest weekly in the United States. It is published by the Nation
- GrantaGranta is a literary magazine which publishes new writing — fiction, personal history, reportage and investigative journalism — four times a year. It is jointly owned together with The New York Review of Books. Granta was founded in 1889 by students at Ca
- Partisan ReviewPartisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly which was published from 1934 to 2003. It was founded by William Phillips and Philip Rahv. It grew out of the John Reed Club as an alternative to New Masses the publication of the American C
- London Review of BooksThe London Review of Books (or LRB is a fortnightly British literary magazine. The London Review was founded in 1979 by former editors of the Times Literary Supplement during the year-long lock-out at The Times''. For its first six months, it appeared as
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