#art, Susan Sontag in the Women’s Artist Series

Who was Susan Sontag? Well for those who do not know, I will tell you that she was a writer, a novelist, a philosopher as well as a professor, movie director and scriptwriter who also directed theatrical pieces. She was born in New York in 1933…

Susan was born of American Jewish parents. She was raised in Los Angeles and in Tucson, Arizona. She studied at the University of Berkley, and as well in Oxford, Chicago and Harvard. In some of these she also taught. Although she had a brief marriage to Philip Rieff, she divorced and began relationships with Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, with the Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés and with Annie Liebowitz during the final stages of her life.

​She was a prolific writer, both novels and movies. The movies she directed were: Duett för kannibaler (Duet for Cannibals) (1969), Broder Carl (Brother Carl) (1971), Promised Lands (1974) and Unguided Tour AKA Letter from Venice (1983). All these movies had limited viewings.

Susan Sontag died in 2004.