In this new biography Jerome Boyd Maunsell assesses the astonishing scope of Sontag's life and work, tracing her growth during her academic career at Chicago, Oxford, the Sorbonne and Harvard, through her marriage to Philip Rieff at the age of 17, to the birth of her son David and her relationships with women. "'My idea of a writer: someone interested in "everything"', declared Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004). Essayist, diarist, filmmaker, novelist and...