WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES
''Definitive and delightful'' Stephen Fry
''There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory vigour - of Moser''s biography... a triumph of the virtues of seriousness and truth-telling that Susan Sontag espoused'' New Stateman
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century''s most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.
Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the