Author Susan Sontag, 71
Posted: Tuesday, December 28th, 2004 7:03 am
Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America’s leading intellectuals, has died aged 71.
The writer, who had suffered from leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Calling herself an “obsessed moralist”, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
She wrote best-selling historical novel The Volcano Lover and in 2000 won the National Book Award for another historical novel, In America.
Her greatest literary impact was as an essayist, however, with her 1964 study of homosexual aesthetics Notes on Camp establishing her as a major new writer. …
Sontag, who described herself as a “zealot of seriousness”, was also a human rights activist and an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy. … Read full obituary
