Susan Sontag

Here are a brief bio and a bibliography of Sontag. This page is good place to start your online research. What information on this page made you want to look up more about it?

This is a review of a biography, Sontag: The Making of an Icon. What does the title mean? What did you learn about her life from reading this review? Where could you find more information?

This page has photos, book covers, and info about a reading Sontag did. How reliable do you consider the information you found there? How can you tell if internet information is reliable?

Did you know that Sontag has contributed to a number of films? Want to read more about them? Click here for a Sontag filmography. Do any of them sound interesting to you?

Here's some info about her illness-related work, revolving around Illness as a Metaphor. Also, you'll find some commentary about this treatise from a health-care point of view.

If you'd like to place this author's work within an important social context, the homepage of the National Organization for Women is sure to help you organize your ideas.

Here's some commentary about Sontag's aesthetics. What does this author think of Sontag? Do you agree?

Here's the first chapter of In America, Sontag's novel about an 19^th Century actress. Did you know that Sontag also wrote novels? How does her writing style in this excerpt compare to that found in your text? (Free registration required.)

This is an essay about Antonin Artaud, a "renaissance man " sort of troubled artist who painted, acted, and wrote. What is it about Artaud that made Sontag want to write an essay about him, do you think?

Would you like to put Sontag's work into a broader cultural context? This essay called "A Photograph Is Not an Opinion. Is it? " about women and photography will help you in this regard.