A highly respected American essayist and novelist, Susan Sontag was born in New York City in 1933. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley; The University of Chicago; Harvard - where she received two MAs, one in English and the other in Philosophy - St Anne's College, Oxford; and the Sorbonne. She has said her desire is to be an écrivain, what the French call someone whose profession is a writer without specialization. Among her books are Against interpretation, and other essays, 1966; AIDS and its metaphors, 1989; The benefactor, a novel, 1963; Death kit, 1967; I, etcetera, 1978; Illness as metaphor, 1978; On Photography, 1977; Styles of radical will, 1969; and The Volcano Lover, a novel. Alice in Bed is her first play.

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