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| Susan Sontag, Leading Intellectual, Dies at 71 |
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EW YORK (AP) -- Susan Sontag, the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century, died Tuesday, according to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She was 71.
Known for wide-ranging interests that included everything from ballet to photography to popularizing of the works of such authors such as Walter Benjamin and Elias Cannetti, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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| 2. Just heard the news on Air America |
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What a shame. A helluvan intriguing and thought-provoking writer.
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