Susan Sontag was born on January 16, 1933 in New York City, she grew up in Tucson, Arizona then attended high school in Los Angeles. She received a B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and studied philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University Saint Anne's College, Oxford.
She is an american essayist, short story writer, novelist and leading commentator on modern culture whose innovative essays on subjects like pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, AIDS, revolution and even photography gained wide attention, she wrote screenplays and directed films, and in the 1960s and 1970s she had a big impact on experimental art.
In her book 'On Photography' which won the National Book Critics Awards for Criticism in 1977, have a series of essays about her opinions on photography like photographs are as much as interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are, to collect photographs is to collect the world, appropriate the thing being photographed and other things she talks about.
Apart from winning an award for On Photography, Sontag achieved numerous awards like the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000) and the 1992 Malaparte Prize in Italy. She was named a Commandeur de I'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the french government in 1999.
On December 28, 2004, Sontag died in New York City.
Bibliography
http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/index.shtml
http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/books/onPhotography.shtml
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sontag.htm
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