Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (16 Januari 1933 – 28 Desember 2004) adalah seorang penulis dan pembuat film, pengajar dan aktivis politik Amerika, yang menerbitkan karya utama pertamanya, sebuah esai yang berjudul "Notes on 'Camp'", pada 1964. Karya paling dikenal buatannya meliputi On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover dan In America.

Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan 
Sontag lahir dengan nama Susan Rosenblatt di kota New York, sebagai putri dari Mildred (née Jacobson) dan Jack Rosenblatt, keduanya Yahudi.

Referensi 

 Poague, Leland (ed.) Conversations with Susan Sontag, University of Mississippi Press, 1995 ISBN 0-87805-833-8
 Rollyson, Carl and Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, W. W. Norton, 2000

Bacaan tambahan 

 Sayres, Sohnya. Susan Sontag: The Elegiac Modernist ISBN 0-415-90031-X
 Seligman, Craig. Sontag and Kael ISBN 1-58243-311-9.
 The Din in the Head. Essays by Cynthia Ozick ISBN 978-0-618-47050-1 See Forward: On Discord and Desire.
 Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff A memoir about Susan Sontag's death by her son.
 Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate
 Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

Pranala luar 

 Susan Sontag, official website
 
 "with Ramona Koval", Books and Writing, ABC Radio National, 30/1/2005
 Susan Sontag and Richard Howard from "The Writer, The Work," a series sponsored by PEN and curated by Susan Sontag
 Susan Sontag wrote an essay: On American Language and Culture  from PEN American Center
 The Politics of Translation: Discussion , with panel members Susan Sontag, Esther Allen, Ammiel Alcalay, Michael Hofmann & Steve Wasserman, PEN American Center
 Susan Sontag  – Photos by Mathieu Bourgois.
 The Friedenspreis acceptance speech (2003-10-12)
 Fascinating Fascism illustrated text of Sontag's seminal 1974 article on Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's aesthetics, from Under the Sign of Saturn
 Sontag's comments in The New Yorker, September 24, 2001 about the September 11th attack on the United States
 Terry Castle, Desperately Seeking Susan, London Review of Books, March 2005
 Sheelah Kolhatkar, "Notes on camp Sontag"  New York Observer, January 8, 2005
 
 'Susan Sontag: The Collector' , by Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Republic
 A review of "Reborn" by James Patrick
 In Depth interview with Sontag, March 2, 2003

Kelahiran 1933
Kematian 2004
Tokoh LGBT
Filsuf Yahudi
Kematian akibat leukemia
Pemakaman Montparnasse