Susan Sontag

American critic, novelist, and essayist; a fellow antiwar voice who appeared with Mailer at Vietnam-era rallies and shared his New York intellectual milieu.

Susan Sontag, the American critic and novelist, moved in the same New York intellectual circles as Mailer and appeared with him at anti-Vietnam War rallies in the mid-1960s. The two would remain contemporaries and occasional sparring partners across the following decades.