As the first biography of Susan Sontag, The Making of An Icon reproduces the glorious life of an icon in intelligence circles and tries to describe the feelings of the icon as an ordinary person. Many stories and details reraly known to people are revealed in the book, such as her natural father died in China and her lazy mother, her lonely childhood with talent firstly showed. Of course, the book is mainly about the unremitting writing passion of Sontag, the informal female leader of the literary world, who conquered breast cancer and went to Bosnia-herzegovina battlefield for ten time, as well as her controversial sexual orientation.
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