HOME

CONTRIBUTORS

Lisa Paddock

Lisa Paddock is a writer who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the co-author, with Carl Rollyson, of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon and other works of literary biography.

Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize for Biography Is a Travesty

For two distinct yet intimately related reasons, we were appalled when we learned that Benjamin Moser had won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book Sontag: Her Life and Work (Ecco). First, as many critics have pointed out, what Moser ...