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Susan Sontag

1933 - 2004

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Susan Lee Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and critic. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999). Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or traveling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Susan Sontag is the 405th most popular writer (up from 450th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from United States (down from 433rd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Writer.

Susan Sontag is most famous for her essays "Notes on 'Camp'" and "Notes on 'Camp' (Continued)," which are about the concept of camp.

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Among writers, Susan Sontag ranks 405 out of 7,302. Before her are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Frank Herbert, William Wordsworth, Verner von Heidenstam, Ghalib, and Graham Greene. After her are Livius Andronicus, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Wilhelm Grimm, Jorge Amado, W. B. Yeats, and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.

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Among people born in 1933, Susan Sontag ranks 22. Before her are Tinto Brass, James Brown, H. D. Deve Gowda, Just Fontaine, Nina Simone, and Arno Allan Penzias. After her are Amartya Sen, Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Philip Roth, Elinor Ostrom, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Among people deceased in 2004, Susan Sontag ranks 15. Before her are Czesław Miłosz, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francis Crick, Peter Ustinov, and P. V. Narasimha Rao. After her are Françoise Sagan, Christopher Reeve, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Janet Leigh.

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Among people born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 486 out of 20,380. Before her are Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Sidney Poitier (1927), Paul Samuelson (1915), J. J. Cale (1938), Clifford Shull (1915), and John Bardeen (1908). After her are Chuck Berry (1926), Bob Kahn (1938), Stevie Wonder (1950), Faye Dunaway (1941), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), and John Saxon (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 43. Before her are Ivanka Trump (1981), Henry Miller (1891), Coen brothers (null), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Frank Herbert (1920). After her are Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Jack Kerouac (1922), Gertrude Stein (1874), Raymond Chandler (1888), and Henry James (1843).

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