Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Susan Sontag across 7 places, from 1939 to 2004.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Susan Lee Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and critic.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Susan Sontag is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Susan Sontag was documented, and when
1939year
Tientsinattested“Her father managed a fur trading business in Tientsin, China, where he died of tuberculosis in 1939, when Susan was five years old.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1952year
University of Connecticutattested“Upon completing her Chicago degree, Sontag taught freshman English at the University of Connecticut for the 1952–53 academic year.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1960 to 1964period
Sarah Lawrence Collegeattested“While working on her stories, Sontag taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and City University of New York and the philosophy of religion with Jacob Taubes, Susan Taubes, Theodor Gaster, and Hans Jonas, in the religion department a…”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1960 to 1964period
Columbia Universityattested“While working on her stories, Sontag taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and City University of New York and the philosophy of religion with Jacob Taubes, Susan Taubes, Theodor Gaster, and Hans Jonas, in the religion department a…”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1986year
Hawaiiattested“Sontag's mother died of lung cancer in Hawaii in 1986.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
28 December 2004exact date
New York Cityattested“Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004, aged 71, from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
28 December 2004exact date
New York (state)attested“Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004, aged 71, from complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
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1957year
St Anne's College, Oxfordmentioned“Sontag was awarded an American Association of University Women's fellowship for the 1957–58 academic year to St Anne's College, Oxford, where she traveled without her husband and son.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1964year
Rutgers Universitymentioned“She held a writing fellowship at Rutgers University in 1964–65 before ending her relationship with academia in favor of full-time freelance writing.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
May 1968month
Hanoimentioned“In May 1968, she visited Hanoi; afterward, she wrote favorably about North Vietnamese society in her essay Trip to Hanoi.”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
1982year
New York (state)mentioned“At a New York pro-Solidarity rally in 1982, Sontag said that "people on the left", like herself, "have willingly or unwillingly told a lot of lies".”source: Wikipedia: Susan Sontag
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