Susan Sontag: A Biography

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By David Dollenmayer ’66

Published Jan. 21, 2016

In the first biography to be published since her 2004 death, Susan Sontag, one of America’s first celebrity intellectuals, is portrayed as a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. Dollenmayer is an award-winning translator and professor emeritus of German language and literature at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

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