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Article: Author-Activist Susan Sontag Dies at 71
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HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
AP Online
12-29-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
Writer Susan Sontag is photographed at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, central Germany on Oct. 11, 2003. Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. She was 71. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of "camp" to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday. She was 71.
Sontag died at 7:10 a.m. Tuesday, said Esther ...