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Article: Sontag's books became cultural touchstones.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2004
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Byline: Julia Keller
CHICAGO _ She was fiercely smart and famously contrarian, a writer and thinker who made history and made enemies. She built bridges and burned a few of them, too, involving herself in famous feuds and passionate public arguments about critical issues such as war, art, memory, politics and pain.
Susan Sontag, 71, who died Tuesday of leukemia in a New York hospital, was among the world's most prominent public intellectuals. The roots of many of her ideas, some say, can be traced to her undergraduate days at the University of Chicago in the late 1940s, where she is still remembered for her vigorous mind and dashing looks.
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