Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Susan Sontag

The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated

About this book

This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933–2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence—including emails—and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography. The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving "more life" at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: My Desert Childhood (1933–45)
  8. Chapter 2: A World Elsewhere (1945–48)
  9. Chapter 3: Towards a Better Life (1949–53)
  10. Chapter 4: The Life and the Project (1953–57)
  11. Chapter 5: Quest (1957–58)
  12. Chapter 6: Making It (1958–62)
  13. Chapter 7: Made (1962–63)
  14. Chapter 8: Supremacy (1963–64)
  15. Chapter 9: Fame (1965–66)
  16. Chapter 10: Peter and Paul (1965–67)
  17. Chapter 11: Neo-Radicalism (1967–69)
  18. Chapter 12: Styles of Radical Will (1968–71)
  19. Chapter 13: Ms. Sontag (1971–73)
  20. Chapter 14: Promised Lands (1973–74)
  21. Chapter 15: “Old Complaints Revisited” (1975)
  22. Chapter 16: Becoming a Little Posthumous (1975–77)
  23. Chapter 17: Recovery (1976–77)
  24. Chapter 18: The Salonistes (1977–85)
  25. Chapter 19: I, etcetera (1978–79)
  26. Chapter 20: A Wandering Jew (1980)
  27. Chapter 21: Susan the Apostate (1982)
  28. Chapter 22: Retrospection and Retaliation (1982–83)
  29. Chapter 23: President Sontag (1984–89)
  30. Chapter 24: Pitching Susan Sontag (1986–89)
  31. Chapter 25: “The Way We Live Now” (1987–92)
  32. Chapter 26: The Volcano Lover (1990–92)
  33. Chapter 27: Sarajevo (1993–95)
  34. Chapter 28: The End and the Beginning (1991–99)
  35. Chapter 29: Recovery and Rejection (1999–2003)
  36. Chapter 30: Finis (2004)
  37. Coda
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. Notes and Comments
  40. Works Cited
  41. Index