Today in History: 16 January 1933: American writer, critic, and public intellectual Susan Lee Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City. From an unhappy childhood, she began her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley but transferred to the University of Chicago where she studied philosophy, ancient history, and literatu…
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