Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels – The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction – a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors.
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