Sontag

American  

[son-tag] / ˈsɒn tæg /

noun

1. Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.

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Sontag British  

/ ˈsɒntæɡ /

noun

1. Susan. 1933–2004, US intellectual and essayist, noted esp for her writings on modern culture. Her works include `Notes on Camp' (1964), `Against Interpretation' (1968), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and the novel The Volcano Lover (1992)

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Example Sentences

His specialty was portraits, many of them of well-known figures from the overlapping artistic-intellectual circles of which he was a part: William Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz and Susan Sontag, to name a few.

From The Wall Street Journal

The book’s final pages reveal Smith continuing to grieve, mourning the loss of other loved ones — her parents, Susan Sontag, Sam Shepard.

From Los Angeles Times

American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

From Barron's

Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

From Barron's

Sontag noted that camp functions as “a private code, a badge of identity even.”

From Los Angeles Times