Susan Sontag was one of America's first celebrity intellectuals. In this biography Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. Drawing on newly available sources, as well as on myriad interviews given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.