Literary news flash
Susan Sontag, the internationally renowned novelist, essayist and critic whose impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements made her one of the most lionized presences -- and one of the most polarizing -- in 20th-century letters, died 28 Dec 2004 of complications of leukemia at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She was 71.
Susan Sontag, the internationally renowned novelist, essayist and critic whose impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements made her one of the most lionized presences -- and one of the most polarizing -- in 20th-century letters, died 28 Dec 2004 of complications of leukemia at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She was 71.
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