Shares a portrait of one of America's first celebrity intellectuals, who was also known as a filmmaker, stage director, and dramatist, and explores the many roles she played in influencing American cultural and political conversations Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time.
