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Sontag biography
Sontag: Her Life and Work
2019 book by Benjamin Moser
Sontag: Her Life and Work is a 2019 biography of American writer Susan Sontag written by Benjamin Moser.
The book won the 2020Pulitzer Prizefor Biography or Autobiography.[2] Judges of the prize called the book "an authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer's genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities, and volatile enthusiasms."[3]
Background
On February 27, 2013, John Williams of The New York Times reported that writer Benjamin Moser signed an agreement to write the authorized biography of Susan Sontag.
Moser was approached by Sontag's son, David Rieff, and the literary agent Andrew Wylie to write the biography. Moser previously wrote Why This World (2009), a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. The book was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Moser wrote at the time that he