Pulitzer Prize Biography Winner
Sontag: Her Life and Work
by Benjamin Moser
Summary
Moser delivers an expansive biography of Susan Sontag, the essayist and public intellectual whose work ranged across photography, illness, and aesthetics. The book traces her rise to fame, her demanding relationships, and the gap between her cool public persona and turbulent private self. It examines both the brilliance of her criticism and the contradictions that shaped her life.
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Historical Context & Significance
Moser drew on Sontag's archive at UCLA and won for this authorized biography of the author of On Photography.