Susan Sontag
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Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known wor
Photo portrait of Sontag, 1966
The cover of Against Interpretation (1966), which contains some of Sontag's best-known essays
The former Sarajevo newspaper building during the Siege of Sarajevo, when Sontag lived in the city
Susan Sontag in 1994, painted by Bolivian artist Juan Fernando Bastos
David Rieff
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David Rieff is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.
Susan Sontag
…before their divorce in 1958, and contributed to the book to such an extent that she has been considered an unofficial co-author. The couple had a son, David Rieff, who went on to be his mother's editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as a writer in his own right. According to Sontag's biographer Benjamin…
Rieff in 2017