Who was also an American film-maker, Pat Conroy or Susan Sontag?
Susan Sontag Susan Sontag ( ; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, film-maker, teacher, political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include "On Photography", "Against Interpretation", "Styles of Radical Will", "The Way We Live Now", "Illness as Metaphor", "Regarding the Pain of Others", "The Volcano Lover", and "In America".
Beach Music (novel) Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter Leah after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the 20th century. It was published in 1995.