Editing David Rieff (section)

==Biography==
Rieff is the only child of [[Susan Sontag]],<ref name="Rose 2011">{{cite journal |last=Rose |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Rose (poet) |date=September 2011 |title=In the ring with Susan Sontag |journal=[[Australian Book Review]] |volume=334 |pages=20–21 |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/files/Features/September_2011/Rose_review_ABR_Sept_11.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305075111/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/files/Features/September_2011/Rose_review_ABR_Sept_11.pdf |archivedate=March 5, 2016  }}</ref> who was 19 years old when he was born. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was [[Philip Rieff]], author of ''[[Philip Rieff#Freud: The Mind of the Moralist|Freud: The Mind of the Moralist]].'' Rieff was educated at the [[New Lincoln School]],<ref> {{cite web| title = Rieff Encounter | url = https://observer.com/2005/05/rieff-encounter/
| website = Observer | date = May 2, 2005| access-date = January 13, 2025}} </ref> [[Lycée Français de New York]] and attended [[Amherst College]] as a member of the class of 1974, where he studied under [[Benjamin DeMott]]. He completed college at Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. in history in 1978.<ref name="worldpolicyinstitutedavidrieff">{{cite web|title=David Rieff|url=http://www.worldpolicy.org/david-rieff|website=World Policy Institute|accessdate=November 8, 2017|archive-date=November 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109023319/http://www.worldpolicy.org/david-rieff|url-status=dead}}</ref>