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Susan Sontag

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The Resume

    (January 16, 1933-December 28, 2004)
    Birth name was Susan Rosenblatt
    Raised in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles
    Resided in Manhattan
    Wrote 'Notes on Camp (1964),' 'Against Interpretation (1966),' 'On Photography (1977),' 'Illness as Metaphor (1978),' 'The Volcano Lover (1992)' and 'In America (2000)'
    Wrote for 'The New Yorker,' 'The New York Review of Books,' 'Times Literary Supplement,' 'The Nation' and 'Partisan Review'
    Partner of famed photographer Annie Leibovitz

Why she might be annoying:

    She was a snob.
    She said: 'I don't like America enough to live anywhere except Manhattan.'
    She was a literary critic who argued that literary criticism was pointless.
    She sneered at writers she didn't like.
    She said: 'The white race is the cancer of human history.'
    The day after 9/11, she published a controversial essay calling the terrorists 'courageous.'
    She had a weird skunk stripe in her hair.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She loved reading.
    She was very involved in civil and human rights causes.
    She was one of the most famous intellectuals of her time.
    Her mother was a drunk.
    Her father died when she was a little girl.
    She graduated from high school at 15.
    She suffered from breast cancer, uterine cancer and leukemia.
    She pissed people off on both the right and the left.
    She had as many fans as detractors.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 174 Votes: 43.68% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 54 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 83 Votes: 55.42% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 72 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 53 Votes: 67.92% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 58 Votes: 77.59% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 82 Votes: 67.07% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 45 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 92 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 118 Votes: 75.42% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 115 Votes: 61.74% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 128 Votes: 63.28% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 1274 Votes: 47.88% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying