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Sontag, who won the National Book Award in 2000 for the historical novel In America, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York. She had leukemia. In the 1970s, she was treated at the hospital for breast cancer.
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USATODAY - Susan Sontag: Always one to speak up |
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Sontag's 17 books have been translated into 30 languages. In addition to her work as a novelist, Sontag was an essayist and a writer of non-fiction. Sontag wrote about pictures and how people relate to them. Regarding the Pain of Others, in which she reconsidered some of the ideas she put forth in On Photography, was an NBCC finalist in 2004. |
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