David Rieff

David Rieff ( born September 28, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American polemicist and critic. Rieff is the son of the US- American sociologist and cultural critic Philip Rieff and Susan Sontag, the American intellectuals, filmmaker, writer and political activist.

David Rieff is the author of eight books, and has the diaries of his mother, Susan Sontag published. For the selection and reduction of the contents of the first two diaries he has reaped criticism.

  • Reborn. Diaries 1947-1963. Edited by David Rieff, translated by Kathrin Razum, Carl Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23944-9.
  • I am writing to find out what I think: Diaries 1964-1980. Edited by David Rieff, translated by Kathrin Razum, Carl Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24340-8.
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