Transcript: Profile: Susan Sontag's life and death

RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
12-29-2004
Profile: Susan Sontag's life and death

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

Novelist, essayist and intellectual Susan Sontag died yesterday after a long struggle with cancer. She was the author of 17 widely translated books. As NPR's Kim Masters reports, Susan Sontag will be remembered, although the nature of her legacy is not yet clear.

KIM MASTERS reporting:

In her 71 years, Sontag explored an astonishing wide array of topics and techniques. She wrote about photography and AIDS, film and choreography, Vietnam and the 9/11 attacks. She also wrote four novels, including "In America," which won the National ...

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