Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French at Yale University.
 Before her arrival at Yale, she was the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies there.
 She is the author of "Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life" (1986); "French Lessons: A Memoir" (1993); "The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach" (2000); and "The Interpreter" (2005), about racial injustice in the American army witnessed by Louis Guilloux.
 In March 2012, Kaplan's book about the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, "Dreaming in French," was published by the University of Chicago Press.
 A French edition of "Dreaming in French", entitled "Trois Américaines à Paris: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, Angela Davis", was published by Éditions Gallimard in October 2012, translated by Patrick Hersant.
Susan Sontag ( ; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, film-maker, teacher, political activist.
 She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964.
 Her best-known works include "On Photography", "Against Interpretation", "Styles of Radical Will", "The Way We Live Now", "Illness as Metaphor", "Regarding the Pain of Others", "The Volcano Lover", and "In America".
Against Interpretation is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1966.
 It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, including "On Style," and the eponymous essay "Against Interpretation."
 In the last, Sontag argues that in the new approach to aesthetics the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect.
 Rather than recognizing great creative works as possible sources of energy, she argues, contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted, and focusing instead on their own intellectually constructed abstractions like "form" and "content."
 In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art."
 The essay famously finishes with the words, "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art".
 The book was a finalist for the Arts and Letters category of the National Book Award
Gail Godwin (born June 18, 1937) is an American novelist and short story writer.
 Godwin has written 14 novels, two short story collections, three non-fiction books, and ten libretti.
 Her primary literary accomplishments are her novels, which have included five best-sellers and three finalists for the National Book Award.
 Most of her books are realistic fiction novels that follow a character's psychological and intellectual development, often based on themes taken from Godwin's own life.
Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book by Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
 It was her last published book before her death in 2004.
 It is regarded by many to be a follow-up or addendum to "On Photography," despite the fact that the two books have radically different opinions about photography.
 This long essay is especially interested in war photography.
 Using photography to back up her points, Sontag sets out to answer one of the three questions posed in Virginia Woolf's book "Three Guineas", "How in your opinion are we to prevent war?"
" Notes on 'Camp' " is an essay by Susan Sontag first published in 1964.
 It was her first contribution to the "Partisan Review".
 The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag intellectual notoriety.
 It was republished in 1966 in Sontag's debut collection of essays, "Against Interpretation".
Nancy Kates is an independent filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 She directed "Regarding Susan Sontag", a feature documentary about the late essayist, novelist, director and activist.
 Through archival footage, interviews, still photographs and images from popular culture, the film reflects the boldness of Sontag’s work and the cultural importance of her thought, and received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Sundance Documentary Film Program.
AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag.
 In this companion book to her "Illness as Metaphor" (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis.
 Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.
Regarding Susan Sontag is a 2014 documentary film about the American intellectual Susan Sontag directed by Nancy Kates.
 It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2014.
 The film's broadcast premiere was on December 8, 2014 on HBO.
 Patricia Clarkson does voiceover for quotes from Sontag in the film.
 Harriet Sohmers Zwerling and Judith Sontag Cohen are interviewed in the film.
Styles of Radical Will is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1969.
 The book contains a collection of personal essays on film, literature, politics and pornography.
 "Styles of Radical Will" is Sontag's second nonfiction published works.
 Her first nonfiction book is titled "Against Interpretation and Other Personal Essays", which was published in 1966.

Question: Were both Gail Godwin and Susan Sontag American writers?
Answer: yes