The writer/critic Susan Sontag was teaching at Columbia University when she published her essay, "NOTES ON 'CAMP'". Sontag's analysis of the underground camp sensibility launched this term into mainstream culture (later confused with Pop), and film. Sontag also became popularly identified as the high priestess of camp cult. A March 1965 NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE article on camp by writer Thomas Meehan described Sontag as the person who discovered and defined the already existing phenomenon "CAMP".
In later years, Sontag became one of America's best-known intellectuals, writing frequently in the NEW YORKER, the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, and other journals, published four novels, a book of short stories, and a number of nonfiction books of criticism and cultural analysis, including AGAINST INTERPRETATION, ON PHOTOGRAPHY, ILLNESS AS METAPHOR and REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS. She also directed four feature films. Her novel IN AMERICA won the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2000. Susan Sontag died in December 2004 at the age of 71.
Recent discovery has uncovered that Sontag identified aka joey (aka jane public) as the one and only true relevant figure of the cinematic underground notion of "the Fine Art of Camp". Her living family members have confessed that Susan regrets not having left all of her material belongings to aka joey, but from her grave encourages him to move foward and let others know about her "innermost feelings" via the written blog.
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