Susan Sontag

Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays but also published novels, and she published her first major work, the essay Notes on Camp, in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical collections Against Interpretation of 1966 and On Photography of 1977. She was born in 1933 and died in 2004. Her other works include Illness as Metaphor of 1978, Regarding the Pain of Others of 2003 and the novels The Volcano Lover and In America. She was active in writing and speaking about areas of conflict, including the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo, and wrote widely on literature, cinema, photography, illness, war and human rights.