The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography| Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser grew up around books. Admittedly, plenty of kids with bookish parents ensure their children are surrounded by shelves and piles of books. But Moser’s mother ran Stop, Look & Learn, a book and toy shop in Rice Village…read more| Benjamin Moser
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography| Benjamin Moser
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography| Benjamin Moser
Through the ’60s and ’70s up to her death, the American writer Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the metropolitan public intellectual. Fifteen years after her death, Benjamin Moser set out to write a new biography of the cultural icon, called “Sontag: Her Life and Work”. Julian Worricker’s interview with him starts with Sontag speaking about herself.| Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser lives in the Netherlands with his Dutch partner, but make no mistake: Houston is home. He grew up in West University Place, and his family’s Houston roots go back to the 19th century. When you go abroad you realize how nice it is to be rooted somewhere,” says the author of the definitive new Susan Sontag biography Sontag: Her Life and Work. “It’s still home.”…read more| Benjamin Moser
“Fifteen years after her death, it is so difficult to explain why Sontag mattered because it had less to do with what she said and wrote than with how she was in the world, or with how she appeared to be. She was just what we needed—or at least what we wanted—at the moment, and the moment has passed.”| Benjamin Moser