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Susan Sontag

1933 - 2004

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Susan Lee Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susan Sontag has received more than 3,944,402 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Susan Sontag is the 450th most popular writer (down from 358th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 345th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Writer.

Susan Sontag is most famous for her essays "Notes on 'Camp'" and "Notes on 'Camp' (Continued)," which are about the concept of camp.

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  • 66

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  • 4.61

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Susan Sontag ranks 450 out of 7,302. Before her are Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, Comte de Lautréamont, Ammianus Marcellinus, Karl Barth, and Gabriela Mistral. After her are Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, and Héloïse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Susan Sontag ranks 21. Before her are Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Heinrich Rohrer, and Philip Roth. After her are Mako, Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, Jayne Mansfield, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Among people deceased in 2004, Susan Sontag ranks 15. Before her are Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. After her are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Christopher Reeve, Akhmad Kadyrov, and Janet Leigh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 433 out of 20,380. Before her are Ed Harris (1950), Shirley MacLaine (1934), Hugh Hefner (1926), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Millard Fillmore (1800), and Lewis H. Morgan (1818). After her are Howard Gardner (1943), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), J. Paul Getty (1892), Richard Widmark (1914), Jim Mattis (1950), and Albert Fish (1870).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 42. Before her are Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), and Kurt Vonnegut (1922). After her are Jack Kerouac (1922), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), and Tom Clancy (1947).

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