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Article: Sontag juggled contradictions in life and work.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2004
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Byline: Carrie Rickey
PHILADELPHIA _ Susan Sontag, critic, novelist, public intellectual and woman of conscience, died of leukemia Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 71.
With her thatch of onyx hair and flashing obsidian eyes, Sontag stormed the world of letters in 1964 with her essay "Notes on Camp," in which she both celebrated and deplored the sensibility that "converts the serious into the frivolous."
Overnight, the 31-year-old single mother became the Joan Baez of American intellectual life, the sad-eyed lady of high art who also loved the Supremes. "Against Interpretation," Sontag's 1966 collection of ...