What is Susan Sontag?
[[File:Susan Sontag 1979 ©Lynn Gilbert (headshot).jpg|thumb|Susan Sontag (1979)]] [[File:Susan Sontag by Juan Bastos.JPG|thumb|Susan Sontag by Juan Bastos]] '''Susan Sontag''' (born '''Susan Rosenblatt''', January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]] and [[political activist]]. Sontag was [[birth|born]] in [[New York City]] to [[Jew]]ish parents.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/politics/articles/pol_0019.htm |title=The fiery words of Susan Sontag |access-date=2012-04-07 |archive-date=2012-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217015645/http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/politics/articles/pol_0019.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> She grew up in [[Tucson, Arizona]] and later in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. ==Early life== Sontag married writer [[Philip Rieff]] when she was 17. Sontag taught freshman English at the [[University of Connecticut]] for the 1952–53 academic year. ==Career== Sontag's first book, ''The Benefactor'', was published in 1966. Her first film ''Duett för kannibaler'' was released in 1969. In 2000 she won the National Book Award. ==Personal life== She was [[coming out|openly]] [[bisexual]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/may/27/fiction.features Finding fact from fiction]</ref> She [[marriage|married]] writer [[Philip Rieff]] (1922-2006) in 1950. Her only child is writer [[David Rieff]] (born 1952). The couple [[divorce]]d in 1959. She was also partners with Cuban playwright [[María Irene Fornés]]. ==Death== She died of [[leukemia]] in [[New York City]]. She is [[burial|buried]] in [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]. == References == <references/> {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sontag, Susan}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2004 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:American feminists]] [[Category:American political activists]] [[Category:Bisexual Jews]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in New York City]] [[Category:Deaths from leukemia]] [[Category:Harvard Un