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Susan Sontag (January 16,1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, teacher andpolitical activist, publishing her first major work, the essay "Notes on'Camp'", in 1964. Her best known works include On Photography, AgainstInterpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, illness asMetaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America.

Sontag was active in writingand speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during theVietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography,culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftistideology. Her essays and speeches sometimes drew criticism. The New York Reviewof Books called her "one of the most influential critics of hergeneration."

